“Facts tell but emotions sell, and most sales happen through emotion.” — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails. — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
The irony of good customer service is that over time it will bring in more new customers than promotions and price slashing… — Susan Ward Copy Share Image
“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Any central bank should only be in charge of liquidity. Solvency is a matter for the treasury. — George Soros Copy Share Image
Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people. — A. G. Gaston Copy Share Image
I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Even if someone is already in your market space, ask yourself whether you can approach it from a different angle and thereby… — Benjamin Cohen Copy Share Image
As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know… — Jimmy John Liautaud Copy Share Image
“One is that you should never take no for an answer. There is always some way to make a sale if you… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Goldman Sachs and other investment banks understood the ensuing problem so well that they began betting against the very mortgage-backed securities they… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Tip of the Week If you bought $1,000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49. If… — Burton G. Malkiel Copy Share Image
It's not a stretch to say the whole financial industry revolves around the compass point of the absolutely safe AAA rating. But… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples' self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn't correspond to our… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Margin,” Swenson says, “is the space between our load and our limits.” 9 Planning for margin means planning for the unplannable. It… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The Federal Reserve indicated that it was heading towards ending its bond-buying programme with a final $15 billion purchase in October. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People thought they were going to make a lot of money. And then at one point, it got too hot, and the… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
“And, as inflation has fallen, so bonds have rallied in what has been one of the great bond bull markets of modern… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Financing is an art form. One of the challenges is how to correctly finance a company. In certain periods of time, more… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
Debt settlement companies work as a middleman between you and your creditor. If all goes well (and that's a big if), you… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
“I strongly support liquidating the corporation that is the Federal Reserve and returning to a monetary system based on a marketproduced precious… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
