“Many entrepreneurs take plenty of risks—but those are generally the failed entrepreneurs, not the success stories.”47” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs don't have a regular 9-5 work day. They don't take vacations. They live and breathe their business 24/7 and wear many… — Christine Tsai Copy Share Image
The Fed cannot levitate markets forever. And when they finally do move, I think we have to be prepared for a considerable… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
We don't come up with product names like 'Cookie Sugar a la Mode.' We made a commitment that our brand is straightforward. — Daniel Lubetzky Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly. — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails… — John Hull Copy Share Image
...consumers do not buy one brand of soap, or coffee, or detergent. They have a repertory of four or five brands, and… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“As we explore later in this chapter, virtually no asset, except for long-term U.S. Treasury bonds, served as an effective hedge against… — Jeremy J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A lot of people with high IQs are terrible investors because they've got terrible temperaments. And that is why we say that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“Who do you work for? That question haunted salesmen. Whenever a trader screwed a customer and the salesman became upset, the trader… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“These techniques do not create greater value, except in impulse-buy categories such as soft drinks and confectionery, because most of them are… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
“The accepted version of history is that the Federal Reserve was created to stabilize our economy. One of the most widely-used textbooks… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
If I owned any of these Hot New Issues that have doubled, tripled, quintupled or umptupled within days and in some cases… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Every serious deflation I've looked at is preceded by an asset bubble, and then it bursts. — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
We know what the customer wants, and so we're buying in a totally different way. — Matthew Williamson Copy Share Image
Why should I trade one tyrant three thousand miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? — Benjamin Martin Copy Share Image
Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits. — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
Our foreign-exchange reserves when I took over were no more than a billion dollars; that is, roughly equal to two weeks' imports. — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings. — David Thwaites Copy Share Image
Customer-centricity should be about delivering value for customers that will eventually create value for the company. — Robert G. Thompson Copy Share Image
Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a customer isn’t to get a sale. The purpose of a sale is to get a customer. —BILL GLAZER,… — Josh Kaufman Copy Share Image
the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture. — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
