?Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society,? said Oliver Wendell Holmes, a Supreme Court justice servicing at the time of the enactment of the tax code in 1913. The slogan is inscribed in huge letters on the face of the IRS headquarters in Washington DC.
?You are going to do really well this year ignoring the noise and thinking about the long term fundamentals,? said Rob Secham of UBS Private Wealth Management.
?There are two giant entities at work in our country, and they both have an amazing influence on our daily lives. . . one has given us radar, sonar, stereo, teletype, the transistor, hearing aids, artificial larynxes, talking movies, and the telephone. The other has given us the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment, the Great Depression, the gasoline crisis, and the Watergate fiasco. Guess which one is now trying to tell the other one how to run its business?? said a sign that hung at AT&T headquarters in New York before its breakup in 1982.
?If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law,? said the WWII British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
I don?t know that the retail investor matters anymore. They didn?t come back to the market after the 2000 crash. The idea that the individual investor believes in the stock market now is challenged. We have a market that is increasingly institutional investors trading back and forth with each other?, said Dan Greenhouse, chief global strategist at BTIG.
?Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!?
? John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group
?We are one budget deal away from being the hot spot of the world. Europe is in the toilet, China?s growth has fallen down, and the Middle East is going backwards. We have a lot of potential for fracking and innovation. If we can prove our nation is governable, we will be the golden spot in the world,? said David Brooks, a conservative columnist for the New York Times.
?Average? is officially over?, said columnist, Tom Freidman, of the New York Times.
?Obama is as lucky as a dog with two d**ks,? said former president Bill Clinton after Mitt Romney?s 47% comment.
?Money will always flow towards opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America?.America?s best days lie ahead? said ?Oracle of Omaha?, Warren Buffet, CEO and the largest shareholder in Berkshire Hathaway.
