“I’ve drunk to your health in company. I drank to your health alone. I’ve drunk to your health so many times that I’ve damn near ruined my own, said WWII Admiral “Bull” Halsey.
"It's hard when a $10-$11 trillion economy that affects one third of the global economy is on a learning curve," said my friend, David Tepper, of Appaloosa Management.
“If I had asked what the customers wanted, they would have told me faster horses,” said Henry Ford.
“Americans are nothing but self-indulgent weaklings,” said Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in 1941.
“What is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records, and Hollywood,” said Adolph Hitler in 1941.
“If one of my competitors were drowning, I’d throw them an anchor,” said the legendary Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s.
“Americans are too pacifist in time of peace, and too bellicose in time of war,” said the columnist, Walter Lippman.
“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.