Hugh Johnson Quotes on Time (10 Quotes)

They the leading indicators have been rising for four successive months and given time, those (six) Fed rate cuts are going to kick in and we'll have better economic activity.

Even though they've bought some stocks this time, they haven't come storming back like they did last October.

If you're going to bet on economists and strategists on one hand, and the markets on the other, take the markets every time.

It's almost as though we're getting a crash, and it's coming at us one stock at a time,

Frankly, Yale Hirsch attaches more significance to this than he should, ... Sometimes it the market does well in an election year and sometimes it doesn't. The real question is what is it going to do this time.

There are no real hiding places, ... But I would tell investors they shouldn't get too scared by what's happening. Don't forget that 70 percent of the time, stocks are going up. I don't know where the market is going in 30 days, but I know where it's going in 30 years.

It is encouraging that the market has been able to hold together. The overall message is that the events in Southeast Asia will in time have an impact on the U.S. economy, but not a major impact in 1998. And that is really good news.

The problem is there are exceptions. You're still left with the question Is this the time when it won't work

Even though it's a bad time, it's a good time - if you have a taxable account, you clearly want to harvest some of the gains, and offset it with some sales of losses,

Time to dig in and start to go.