"The car business is hell," said Tesla co-founder Elon Musk, when announcing he would sleep in the Fremont, CA, Tesla factory until Model S production reaches 2,500 units a week.
"It's a terrible mistake to own something, just because somebody else owns it, even if that other person is Benjamin Graham, the dean of investing," said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
"A fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others," said Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Modern Germany.
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry," said the 19th century American humorist Mark Twain.
"Getting information off the Internet is akin to trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom," said Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google.
"Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost by corrections themselves," said the legendary Fidelity money manager, Peter Lynch, who once told me I was the dumbest broker he had ever met.
"If I had a ticket to Heaven, and you didn't have one, I'd give it away and go to hell with you," said president Ronald Reagan to retiring House Majority leader Tip O'Neal.
"You make the most money when things go from terrible to only bad." said Tim Seymour of emerging market hedge fund, Triogem Asset Management.
"It is impossible to compete with a big company that doesn't want to make money," said J. Crew founder Mickey Drexler about Amazon.
"Every recession sows the seeds for the next business recovery, and every recovery sows the seeds of the next recession." said hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors.