"It's not always the troops that storm the beaches who are the right ones to set up the government," said Steve Vassallo from Foundation Capital about the resignation of founder Travis Kalanick from Uber.
"This is very bullish for markets. It's bullish for markets intermediate term. Before, I thought we were in the seventh inning of a four-year bull market. Two waiters just came in and delivered another punch bowl. We're going into extra innings, baby," said Stanley Druckenmiller formerly of hedge fund Duquesne Capital Management, about the Fed's decision not to taper.
"If you can't make yourself loved, make yourself feared," said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the banking dynasty.
"The stock market is one of those things that looks better the more expensive it gets," said Barbara Marcin, portfolio manager of the Gabelli Dividend Growth Fund.
"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.
"I'd much rather have the Wicked Witch of the East go away. We'd be way better off if we ended quantitative easing real fast so this scapegoat can get behind us," said Ken Fisher of Fisher Investments.
"There's a lot of performance anxiety out there right now. There's nothing worse than sitting on cash watching a market go up double digits," said Tom Lee, former chief U.S. equity strategist of J.P. Morgan.
"Outsourcing is quickly becoming mostly outdated as a business model," said former GE CEO, Jeffrey Immelt.
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country," said John F. Kennedy, America's 35th president.
"We are still in the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. I would have to put the likelihood of a double-dip recession now up to 50%," said my old UC Berkeley economics professor, Robert Reich.
