“It’s easier to get out of Cuba than to get out of Facebook,” said a market analyst.
“In the US, you had ten bad years in a row (during the Great Depression) and it still turned out to be a pretty good century, said Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.
“US stock performance was good in 2025, but is set to be outperformed by Japan, Europe, and emerging markets,” said a top manager at bond giant PIMCO.
“Investing Illusions can continue for a surprisingly long time,” said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet.
“Fair value doesn’t mean you have to go down. It just means you have to be cautious,” said hedge fund legend David Tepper of Appaloosa Management.
“Artificial Intelligence is potentially more dangerous than nukes,” said Andrew McAfee of the MIT Center for Digital Business.
“Every recession sows the seeds for the next business recovery, and every recovery sows the seeds of the next recession,” said hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors.
“If you die a rich person, you’ve failed,” said steel pioneer Andrew Carnegie, who gave away $11 billion during his lifetime, including building a library in every town in the United States.
"What is currently happening is that we have a lot of noise around what is uneconomic. When the economic stuff starts happening, like tax cuts, that will feed into real things, like cash flow and earnings," said Bill Miller, chairman of LMM Investments.
"Good fortune is often more fatal than adversity," said the 18th century German emperor, Frederick the Great.
