“It’s not always the troops that storm the beaches who are the right ones to set up the government,” said Steve Vassallo from Foundation Capital about the resignation of founder Travis Kalanick from Uber.
"When a crisis hits, the correlation of everything goes to one," said Boris Schlossberg of BK Asset Management.
“By 2027, 75% of the companies in the Fortune 500 will not be there unless they make bold changes and digitally transform their companies. It’s do or die,” said Bill McDermott, CEO of ServiceNow (NOW), which offers cloud computing platforms for companies. I couldn’t agree more.
“With valuations rising and fundamentals deteriorating we are in Looney Tunes Land here. The coyote is running in midair”, said a hedge fund friend of mine about current stock market conditions.
“The less time you have left, the more valuable it becomes,” said the late rock legend David Crosby, who died at 81 last week.
“It’s not like stocks are so compelling. It’s that there is nowhere else to put your cash. There’s a ton of capital coming in here. When it feels this easy, it’s usually time to be cautious,” said Barry Sternwood, CEO of the Starwood Capital Group.
“I think we don’t become our most honest and genuine until we are dead, and not until we have become dead for years. People ought to start dead and then they would become honest earlier,” said American writer and humorist Mark Twain.
“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.
"Since 9-11, the government knows a lot more about you than you know about them, and the government likes that. But that's not what the American people want," said California Republican Congressman, Daryl Issa.
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."