“The economy without debt is like major league baseball without steroids,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer of BMO Private Bank.
"Homo Sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission the natural selection, the force that made us," said E.O. Wilson, a Harvard University biology professor.
“Semiconductors are the new industrials,” said Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management.
"The future ain't what it used to be," said the former New York Yankees baseball manager, Yogi Berra.
“When asked how he manages the time to be chairman of Microsoft, run the world’s largest charity, and raise three kids, Bill Gates answered, “I don’t mow the lawn.”
“Nothing good ever happens under the 200-day moving average,” said my old friend, hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones.
“The rule book on how things are done and how they will play out you can just throw away right now,” said Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners.
"If horses could have voted, there never would have been cars," said my friend, Tom Friedman, a columnist at the New York Times.
“There is a better chance that hockey is banned in Thunder Bay, Ontario, than the USA seeing a sustained 4% GDP growth rate when oil is above $100/barrel,” said Keith R. McCullough, CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management.
"It is fine to have the longest view in the room, as long as the thing at the end of the vista is a gigantic hill of money," said John Lanchester of The New Yorker magazine.