Most people sell stock to pay taxes, but I didn't want to sell any stock.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.
The idea of a financial transaction tax on Wall Street trades is gaining momentum. I have a bill called - nicknamed the Robin Hood tax also. It's a bill that taxes stock trades, derivatives and bonds, and would generate in the neighborhood of $300 billion a year.
We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.
You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.
I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.
I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.