Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
“A strategy for where and when and how to interact with shoppers becomes crucial. And a solid strategy rests on solid theory… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
“The Holy Grail of Retailing,” as follows: • To know exactly what each shopper wants, or may buy, as they come through… — Herb Sorensen Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Stocks are at an all-time high today. I don't have any money in the stock market. I don't have the stomach for… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I have not been a believer of point guidance. It really limits your flexibility to do what you want. It leads to… — Ruth Porat Copy Share Image
In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However,… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
If 'Spectator Business' works, we will continue this brand extension strategy and look at everything from 'Spectator Arts' to 'Spectator Style and… — Andrew Neil Copy Share Image
Even if you have no interest in starting a company, having the experience of having ideas and doing them, that's muscle to… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
It helps tremendously to have operating startup experience when advising startups. It is much easier to tell people how to talk to… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think that is a very important milestone in our economic history that the monetary policy is now determined through a committee… — Urjit Patel Copy Share Image
Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to… — Mohamed El-Erian Copy Share Image
I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
As I said before, a big part of my strategy says - and the management team I think is in agreement with… — Sanjay Kumar Copy Share Image
“So now as always you could get AAA ratings, not for subprime mortgages, obviously bad, but for submarine mortgages, clearly much better!… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“The Economist wrote that the Fed was “taking the unprecedented (and, some say, disturbing) step of financing up to $30 billion of… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
At Uber, we say, 'Always be hustling.' Even if you are an introvert and you haven't got hustle in you, you better… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
'Too big to fail' is fine for restaurant chains. If Denny's fails, it's fine for this economy. You can always go down… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
“They don't try to trade 'reality', they try to trade other people's perceptions of reality. If a market is dominated by enough… — Brett Scott Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to even try to begin to describe our customer, as I think she likes a certain amount of anonymity.… — Phoebe Philo Copy Share Image
The ability to change one's mind is probably a key characteristic of the successful investor. Dogmatic and rigid personalities rarely, if ever,… — Jack D. Schwager Copy Share Image
After the 1929 crash, the Federal Reserve mistakenly focused its policies on preserving the gold value of the dollar rather than on… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Many LBOs are man-made disasters. When the price paid is excessive, the equity portion of an LBO is really an out-of-the-money call… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
You're having government spending on the economy being cut almost everywhere. That means that the only source of spending for growth has… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Every time the Fed implements 'quantitative easing,' a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Every dominant brand (such as those listed in Table 5.1) has had to reinvest in mindspace every year to keep its position.… — Greg Thain Copy Share Image
An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy. — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
The key element of success is a product that matches all of what you've done in your message and your marketing, and… — Ricardo Guadalupe Copy Share Image