“At an age when other high school kids were sneaking out of the house to go partying, Paul and I would sneak out to go use the computers in a lab at the University of Washington,” said Bill gates about his late partner, Paul Allen.
“An investment strategy that depends on the Fed quitting sounds pretty risky to me….The Fed can remain solvent longer than you can remain solvent,” said Chris White, the CEO of Bondcliq.
“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 most dangerous word in the English language is “cheap”” said a hedge fund manager friend of mine.
“Blue skies, nothing but blue skies. Never saw the sun shining so bright, things going so right, grey days, all of them gone. Nothing but blue skies from now on,” said the top musical lyric of early 1929, by Irving Berlin.
“I get more and more convinced that the right method in investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes,” said the legendary economist John Maynard Keynes in 1934.
“And when he goes to Heaven to Saint Peter, he will tell, “Another Marine reporting sir, I’ve served my time in Hell,” inscribed on a wooden cross at a grave on Guadalcanal.
“We do have a lot of momentum players in the market that are riding trends. As long as those trends are up it may be painful to be short,” said Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School of Business.
“There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet,” said WWII Admiral “Bull Halsey.
“Language does not provide the means for us to describe the destruction before us,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel about the damage from the climate change-induced flooding in Germany.
