“We are one budget deal away from being the hot spot of the world. Europe is in the toilet, China’s growth has fallen down, and the Middle East is going backwards. We have a lot of potential for fracking and innovation. If we can prove our nation is governable, we will be the golden spot […]

“Average” is officially over”, said columnist, Tom Freidman, of the New York Times.

“Obama is as lucky as a dog with two d**ks,” said former president Bill Clinton after Mitt Romney’s 47% comment.

“China has been doing everything right for the last ten years. Our government is made up of ‘C’ students that were political science majors, whereas, the Chinese government is made up of PhD’s that were educated at Cambridge and Harvard,’ said one Washington observer.

“Money will always flow towards opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America….America’s best days lie ahead” said “Oracle of Omaha”, Warren Buffet, CEO and the largest shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway.

“Apple will never be a consumer products company,” said John Sculley, the Apple CEO who fired Steve Jobs in 1985. Today Apple is the world’s largest and most profitable consumer products company.

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the nose,” said former heavyweight champion, Mike Tyson.

Steve Jobs offered me one third of Apple for $50,000 and I was so smart that I turned it down. It’s funny when you think about it now, except when I’m crying,” said Nolan Bushnell, the founder of game company Atari and Jobs’ first employer.

“You know the Iran deal is a bad one when the French turn down a six way,” said comedian Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report.

“2014 will be the fifth year of living dangerously,” said Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research.

“I think we’re in the middle of the game, maybe the fourth or fifth inning. I really think this thing has another five years to go. It’s going to take that long before people become confident enough and they start becoming confident enough and blowing themselves up again,” said John Paulson of Wells Capital Management.

“For the investor who has a strategically allocated portfolio, who are three to five years away from needing their capital, should think of selling the beloved and buying the loathed,” said JJ Burns of JJ Burns and company.

“Housing in terms of price has put in a real bottom. I’m not looking for a housing bull market. We are in the second phase of a housing bear market. But the good news is that we can correct the rest of the way back to the long term trend through time, rather than price […]

“I looked all over the basement when I was at the White House, and there is no big lever you can throw to make things good again,” said Austin Goolsby, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.

“The days of leading companies or countries via a one-way conversation are over. The old system of ‘command and control’ – using carrots and sticks –to exert power over people is fast being replaced by ‘connect and collaborate’.” said author Dov Seidman.