"What is currently happening is that we have a lot of noise around what is uneconomic. When the economic stuff starts happening, like tax cuts, that will feed into real things, like cash flow and earnings," said Bill Miller, chairman of LMM Investments.
“Life is too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful,” said Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.
“Cheap is a dangerous word,” said technical analyst Carter Braxton Worth.
"This is an epic bond bubble that we may have just seen the end of, not only here, but in Europe too," said Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakly Financial Group.
“Banks have turned into gigantic gambling institutions. You never know what you own. I wouldn't touch them if you pointed a gun to my head,” said legendary hedge fund manager Bill Fleckenstein on Hedge Fund Radio.
“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.
“Day to day, the stock market is a voting machine; in the long term, it’s a weighing machine,” said the legendary stock analyst Benjamin Graham.
When asked about the urban legend that the vaults at Fort Knox are empty, and that the Fed has no gold, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded, "I've been to the basement of the New York Fed. The gold is there. I've seen it."
"A fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others," said Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Modern Germany.
“And then what? That is the question you always have to ask yourself, what is going to happen in 10, 20, 0r 30 years,” said Warren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha.