Customer Quotes · Page 117

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

— Ben Horowitz

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.

— Alex Berenson

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little…

— Sam Walton

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

— Harry Reid

Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.

— Brian Tracy

“Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make—stories that sell and stories that spread.”

— Anonymous

We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.

— Burton Malkiel

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In…

— James Surowiecki

You may find it more relaxing to work with people just like you, but entrepreneurship is about finding new approaches to problems,…

— Sallie Krawcheck

High leverage is unsafe, not just for a company but the entire economy... LBOs are reducing the safety. Management loses the power…

— Franco Modigliani

Businesses are interacting with consumers to socialize rather than learn about customer expectations to in turn, deliver tangible value, improve product experiences,…

— Brian Solis

“It is by owning multiple asset classes - foreign stocks, bonds, TIPS, real estate, commodities, etc. - that we can truly consume…

— Alex Frey

We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan…

— Jamie Dimon

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we…

— Richard Edelman

“Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble. I define a speculative bubble as a situation in which news of…

— Robert J. Shiller

“SINCE the financial crisis, it has become commonplace to argue that banks should be run as utilities, not casinos. At least in…

— Anonymous

To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars…

— Thomas Sowell

“The Mergers and Acquisitions Framework You might use the mergers and acquisitions framework to address cases in which one company wants to…

— Victor Cheng

Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm…

— Bruce Kovner

“This is because the quality and innovation of retailer brands is limited to what they can negotiate from manufacturers. For products that…

— Greg Thain

If the dollar weakens, then presumably all the things that we make in the United States - Buicks, for instance - can…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“These senior claims were supposed to be very low-risk; after all, how likely was it that a large number of people would…

— Paul Krugman

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

— Michael Nesmith

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

— James Dyson

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

— Reid Hoffman

Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

— Richard Turner

The single most important advice I can give anybody is: Learn from your mistakes. That is the only way to become a…

— David Ryan

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

— Sam Altman

The beauty of periodic rebalancing is that it forces you to base your investing decisions on a simple, objective standard.

— Benjamin Graham

Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.

— Peter Drucker

All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans.

— John Kremer

“Holding losses and hoping to break even is not an investing or trading plan. That is dumb money on suicide watch!”

— Fred McAllen

There are only two kinds of businesses in this world: Businesses in crazy competition, and businesses that are one of a kind.

— Peter Thiel

In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the…

— Marc Andreessen

Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

— Paul Zane Pilzer

We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

Subprime mortgages, typically defined as those issued to borrowers with low credit scores, make up roughly the riskiest one-third of all mortgages.

— Michael Burry

Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can…

— Robert D. Arnott