Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Incredibly, at this critical juncture in financial history, after which so much changed so quickly, the only constraint in the subprime mortgage… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
When you buy a company that's been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in… — Phil Murphy Copy Share Image
“What makes a good salesperson? Let me be clear that it’s not the person who can talk someone into anything. It’s not… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger has hired billionaire Warren Buffett as his senior economic advisor. And not to be outdone Gary Coleman announced his senior… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The simple reason Goldman wasn’t making much of the big money now being made in the stock market was that the stock… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Investors... can't pick stocks that are better than average. Stocks are a good thing to own over time. There's only two things… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We judged that a sudden, disorderly failure of Bear would have brought with it unpredictable but severe consequences for the functioning of… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of… — Robert Haugen Copy Share Image
You've got to be very insightful about your brand, who you are, and what you mean to people. You've got to be… — Frances Allen Copy Share Image
Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate.… — Mario Draghi Copy Share Image
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
You cannot have an asset that goes up in price 1% every month or 1% every six months or every day without… — Erik Voorhees Copy Share Image
Marketing and advertising are incredibly exciting and creative functions. They are central to the creation of brands and to the creation of… — Jim Speros Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid - a runner for Merrill Lynch at 25 dollars a week - I'd heard an old timer… — Leo Melamed Copy Share Image
Sometimes a creditor is willingto do this as a bargaining point - you give the creditor cash in hand, it gives you… — Jean Chatzky Copy Share Image
If you have credit card debt and credit card companies continue to close down the cards, what are you going to do?… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot… — Toshihiko Fukui Copy Share Image
The financial crisis and the Great Recession demonstrated, in a dramatic and unmistakable manner, how extraordinarily vulnerable are the large share of… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
I may play a total madman on TV, but I'm really just a very unbalanced guy at home. However, when it comes… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
While markets are supposed to ensure transparency by showing orders to everyone simultaneously, flash orders are currently allowed because of a loophole… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A file-sharing service and a hedge fund are essentially the same things. In both cases, there's this idea that whoever has the… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks,… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I pretty much believe, as everyone in the B Team does, that business must succeed beyond the bottom line. More important than… — Guilherme Leal Copy Share Image
“From 2006 to 2008, high-frequency traders’ share of total U.S. stock market trading doubled, from 26 percent to 52 percent—and it has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When most people are unhappy customers, they get mad; I try to get rich. All of my businesses started the same way:… — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind… — Jonah Peretti Copy Share Image
“Simplifying the product offering doesn’t mean that you are taking away the customer’s choice; rather it sends the message that you know… — Nathan Furr Copy Share Image
The research that Noam Wasserman has assembled here can help entrepreneurial companies who want to prepare well for their future. The Founder's… — Timothy C. Draper Copy Share Image
If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
