“Something everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” said Bernard Baruch, one of the greatest stock traders of all time and advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt.
“If we are just going to argue about how much money we can burn to stay warm while the heater is broken, the unemployment rate is going to come down only 1.5% a year," said economist Austin Goolsby.
“Innovation has not died at the tech companies, but valuation has,” said Mark Lehman, CEO of JPM Securities.
“The radio elected Hitler, the television elected Kennedy, and Facebook elected Obama and Trump. That’s the way it works with technology,” said Ben Horowitz, founder of the top performing venture capitalist Andreeson Horowitz
“You don’t pick your passions, your passions pick you,” said the novelist, John Irving.
"We underestimated the negative impact of the slowdown in the housing market, and we may be underestimating the tailwind in its recovery," said Uwe Mark Ruttke of Merrill Lynch, the top financial advisor in Colorado.
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, what is an empty desk a sign of?” asked Albert Einstein.
The 40-year bull market in bonds is over,” said Dr. Jeremy Siegal of the Wharton School of Business. I agree heartily.
“If markets were rational, I would be washing dishes for a living,” said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet.
“Owning a non-controlling portion of a wonderful business is more profitable, more enjoyable and far less work than struggling with 100% of a marginal enterprise,” said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet.