“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary,” said my friend Nassim Taleb, author of Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.”
“Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from making bad judgments,” said US Army general Simon Bolivar Buckner, the most senior Army officer to die in WWII.
“The two things the Fed can’t do is print humans to fill jobs and print oil to stop inflation,” said Bryn Talkington of Requisite Capital Management.
“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.
