Jeremy Siegel Quotes (11 Quotes)

Gen Re is an important part of Berkshire. I think Warren would be the first to admit that he didn't know all the problems of Gen Re when he bought it in 1998.... There clearly is no ethical issue involving him.

If he is smart, he would put this aside completely until the cycle of Fed tightening is over and a clear path can be seen ahead. The Fed has gone 90 years without it. It can go another nine months.

That's very frustrating, but earnings are still what it's all about. Investors look at annual performance, and they're not always patient to sit with a company for a long time.

I think that certainly this preoccupies us today, but I think the economic factors are overriding when considering the direction of the market.

Neither, however, should they expect Buffett's advancing age to have much effect on the share price. Everyone knows he's not going to live forever, ... That's built into the price.... The market is thinking, maybe he's got five to 10 years.... If we knew that Buffett was going to live forever, maybe the stock would be 10 higher.

I was looking back on when Nixon resigned and actually the market held up very well around those days. It began to tank actually after Ford came in as president and the economic news began to dim.

The market is taking any minor shred of optimistic evidence and putting it into the price. People are worried that they are going to miss out on the bottom.

At 74, Buffett says he is in excellent health and has no plans to retire. Nor has he named a successor. But if he did leave the company, what would happen to it Buffett is universally viewed as the key to Berkshire's fine performance. He's obviously a very bright man, ... He looks at things very rationally. He doesn't like to get his emotions involved.

Relative to the 7 trillion mutual fund industry, it's very little money, maybe one or two percent in returns.

This is a major, major act of war and act of terrorism that will have widespread economic consequences.

In our modern, connected world, there are fewer reasons for close proximity for those involved in the financial markets.