?They are energetic. They are very smart. But a lot of them?they are paper pushers. They make a fortune. They pay no tax. It?s ridiculous, OK?? said presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
?The market is like a bathtub. Money is sloshing from one sector to another, but it is not leaving,? said strategist Louis Navellier, of Navellier Associates.
?Every geopolitical crisis in the world is squarely pointed at the heart of Europe right now, be it terrorism, the collapse of Europe, or the currency crisis, and that means it?s focused on Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany,? said my friend, Ian Bremmer, of the political consulting firm, Eurasia Group.
?You always sound smarter when you?re a bear than when you?re a bull,? said Adam Parker of Morgan Stanley.
?We are going to be working off backlogs of construction, mining, oil, and gas for years,? said my friend, famed short seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates.
?Free choice is not relevant in financial markets because there are too many players. A stock with a million holders is much more predictable than one with five.? said Charles Nenner, of Charles Nenner Research in Amsterdam.
?If the yen goes to ?150, what does Toyota do to Ford?? said Barry Sternlicht, CEO of the private equity firm, Starwood Capital.
?I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but never the madness of crowds,? said Sir Isaac Newton, the inventor of calculus and discoverer of Newton?s Laws, who lost his entire fortune in a 17th century investment scam called ?the south Sea Bubble.?
?The speed of change has accelerated tremendously. What used to happen in three years now happens in three months,? said my friend, Hewlett Packard CEO, Meg Whitman.
?Japan has gone from Paul Volcker to Ben Bernanke overnight,? said legendary hedge fund manager, Stan Druckenmiller.
