"We're always worried. As a financial advisor, you live your life worried," said David Zier of Convergent Wealth, the top financial advisor in Maryland.
“Market players are starting to become desensitized to the Armageddon, end-of-the-world stories,” said Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management.
"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster," said the Civil War General, William T. Sherman.
"Everything is expensive now. Worries about the future can cause safe assets to become highly-priced. I call it the 'Titanic Effect.' When the Titanic was going down, people would pay a fortune for anything that floats. We may be in a Titanic situation now," said my buddy, Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller.
"The market always gets it right," said Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, who coined the term "BRIC".
“Bonds are priced artificially because you’ve got some guy buying tens of billions of dollars’ worth a month. That will change at some point, and when it does, people are going to lose a lot of money,” said the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
"Stocks are a lot safer than investors realize," said Tom Lee, chief US equity strategist of JP Morgan.
In Silicon Valley, you’re either a unicorn or a dinosaur, and if you are the latter, you are uninvestable,” said a venture capital friend of mine.
“There’s a 70% chance you could lose it all,” said Jeff Bezos to his parents when asking for a $100,000 investment to start Amazon. “I want you to know the risks because I want to be able to come home for Thanksgiving.”
“The French have more fun in one year than the English do in ten,” said John Adams, America’s second president, and one-time ambassador to Paris and London.
