“Altitude above you, runway behind you, and fuel in tanks on the ground are utterly useless,” said presidential candidate George McGovern, a WWII B-24 Liberator pilot.
“Sometimes, when you jump off a bridge, you have to grow your wings on the way down,” said author Danielle Steele.
"Risk control is the best route to loss avoidance. Risk avoidance, on the other hand, is likely to lead to return avoidance as well." said Howard Marks, founder of distressed debt giant, Oaktree Capital Management.
"If we live in a period of uncertainty long enough, it becomes the norm," said Drew Matus, an economist at UBS.
"No better friend, nor worse enemy," says the motto of First Division of the US Marine Corps.
“It’s a comfort to become a tourist in my old age and enjoy my irrelevance,”
said the famed radio entertainer, Garrison Keillor.
“I don’t know what’s going to happen next quarter and I don’t care,” said Jamie Diamond, CEO of JP Morgan Chase Bank.
"20 years ago, I could read the Wall Street Journal every morning and feel that I knew enough to at least start my day. That is no longer true," said technology guru and venture capital investor, Roger McNamee.
“The bubble is in the bond market, not the stock market,” said Leon Cooperman, CEO of Omega Advisors, an original investor in my 1990s hedge fund.
“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.