“I have lived through many unique events over the past five decades on Wall Street, but this market seems to defy all logic based on historical experience and data,” said Michael Schwartz chief options strategist at Oppenheimer & Co.
“I had no idea Amazon would produce this kind of performance. I blew it,” confessed Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett.
“By the time you spot a bandwagon, it is too late to get on,” said Sir Martin Franklin, co-chairman of the APi Group.
“A market has never before come out of a recession with stocks at peak earnings multiples,” said Jonathan Golub, Chief Equity Strategist at Credit Suisse.
"No one is line dancing over the fact that the market is at 2,700. No one feels good about it. The market likes to climb a wall of worry, and the stonemason has been hard at work. So I think we continue to grind higher," said Jason Trennert, chief investment strategist at Strategas Research Partners.
"The most powerful weapon of a modern army is the printing press," said T.E. Lawrence, otherwise known as Lawrence of Arabia.
“I don’t think anyone has made money in the long term by betting against the United States,” said Kevin Bernzott of Bernzott Capital Advisors.
“The worst advice I have received is to look in the rearview mirror and think that what led to success somehow can lead you to new success. Because it doesn’t. History will come back and bite you in the ass,” said Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!” said Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, 1945.
