- [opening lines to each show]
- Louis Rukeyser: Good evening. I'm Louis Rukeyser and this is "Wall Street Week." Welcome back.
- Louis Rukeyser: [Referring to "Black Monday", October 19, 1987] It's just your money. It's not your life. The figures on a broker's report mean little compared to that. The people who loved you a week ago still love you today.
- Louis Rukeyser: [from June 28, 2002] So pervasive is the sense of distrust, that many investors were asking whether there has ever been such a hostile and skeptical attitude before now. The answer, as it happens, and this apparently will surprise many of those without long experience in the market, is yes.
- Louis Rukeyser: [from June 28, 2002] There's nothing like a bull market to bring out the crooks, and a bear market to start catching them.
- Peter Lynch: [from June 28, 2002] You have to know what you own, whether it's a fund or a stock, and you have a reason for it. And you ought to be able to explain to an 11-year old, in two minutes or less, why you own it. And "This sucker's goin' up." is not a good reason. I've tried that one. It doesn't work.
- Martin Zweig: [from Oct. 16, 1987] I haven't been looking for a bear market, per se, I've been really in my own mind looking for a crash, but I didn't want to talk about it publicly, because it's like shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater. And there's other ways to play it. You just tilt your strategy negatively and you shut your mouth.