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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing. -- Daniel Kahneman
I don't believe all this nonsense about market timing. Just buy good value and when the market is ready that value will be recognized. -- Henry Earl Singleton
In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility. -- Benjamin Graham
Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline. -- Jeremy Grantham
We continue to make more money when snoring than when active. -- Warren Buffett
All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology. -- Bernard Baruch
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times. -- Bernard Baruch
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient. -- Warren Buffett
Do you know what investing for the long run but listening to market news everyday is like? It's like a man walking up a big hill with a yo-yo and keeping his eyes fixed on the yo-yo instead of the hill. -- Alan Abelson
It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband. -- Jose Ferreira
Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known. -- George Will
I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions. -- Cory Monteith
The most important ingredient for success in the stock market is a sharp sense of timing. -- Venita VanCaspel
Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage. -- Nick Murray
I don't know too many people that are good at timing the market relative to macro-economic events. -- Joel Greenblatt

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