“Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have a voodoo doll about each and every one of us regarding each and every touchpoint of our lives. They’re as much a part of us as our kidney or our legs,” said Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners.
When the legendary economist, John Maynard Keynes, was asked if the world had ever seen a Great Depression before, he responded, “Yes, it was called the Dark Ages, and it lasted 400 years.”
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,” said General James Mattis, former US secretary of defense.
"Savers are losers," said a radio ad for a mortgage broker in Reno, Nevada.
"They say when you get old, you become wise. The truth is that when you get old, all the people who know you are stupid are dead," said the late comedian Joan Rivers.
“The rule book on how things are done and how they will play out you can just throw away right now,” said Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners.
"Send us your freaks," said an Amazon human resources executive to a temp agency during its early days.
"Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use," said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings.
"Everything is expensive now. Worries about the future can cause safe assets to become highly-priced...I call it the 'Titanic Effect.' When the Titanic was going down, people would pay a fortune for anything that floats. We may be in a Titanic situation now," said my buddy, Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller.
"We've seen the S&P 500 drop 50% twice in the last two decades. That is the new normal," said Richard Kang of Emerging Global Advisors.
