“When you think you know more than everyone else about the consumer, you’re in trouble,” said Mickie Drexler, the legendary CEO of J Crew and Apple board member.
“To get rich is glorious!” said Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese general who launched the country’s modern economy in the seventies.
“What the Fed has done is pulled forward several years of stock appreciation into just a couple of months. I think stock prices are too high,” said Jonathan Golub, chief US equity strategist of Credit Suisse.
?Selecting a marriage partner clearly requires more demanding criteria than does dating,? said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
“People are investing with a rear-view mirror. Last year, you had people scared out of the market. Unfortunately, you are losing a generation of investors at a time when they ought to be thinking about buying high quality stocks,” said Hersh Cohen of Clearbridge Advisors.
“For the first time in history, more people will die from eating too much food this year than not enough food, said my old friend and mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, about his attempt to ban 16-ounce soft drinks in the city.
“The individual investor in America sits at the bottom of the food chain,” said John C. Bogle, the late founder of the Vanguard Group of index funds.
“If you are going to be bearish and against this market, you are betting against the three richest men on the earth, Jay Powell, Christine Lagarde, and Kuroda,” said market strategist, Ed Yardeni.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," said John F. Kennedy, America's 35th president.
“Wars are easier to get into than to get out of,” said former Secretary of Defense, Robert M. Gates.