Mario Gabelli Quotations

I think we're going from a market that's driven by momentum and driven by a flow of funds to a stock picker's market. That's going to provide very good opportunities for those that are focused on given areas.

How do you make money? Spinoffs, split-ups, liquidations, mergers and acquisitions.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fishbowl and tells you their point of view.

The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.

It goes to show you he has a comfort factor with the power he has at Disney.

How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?... Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.

How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

I like existing management's plan for the company but that doesn't mean we know how we're going to vote yet.

I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.

Investors should think about this as an enhanced money-market return.