I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to be an entrepreneur, fail as fast as you can. The longer you go without that experience, the more… — Jeffry A Timmons Copy Share Image
We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in… — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry.… — Laurence D. Fink Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right. And that is why you must seize… — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
The financial crisis of 2008 created a seismic shift in the dynamics of trust in financial services. FinTech would have happened without… — Taavet Hinrikus Copy Share Image
For every Tesla or Uber, there's a Valeant Pharmaceuticals or Theranos - two story stocks that seduced an astounding array of prominent… — James B. Stewart Copy Share Image
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“If you focus on diversification instead of single-minded pursuit of the very few companies that can become overwhelmingly valuable, you’ll miss those… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per… — Richard Koch Copy Share Image
“From these two broad examples we draw two morals for our readers: Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Seems like everybody's got a price, I wonder how they sleep at night.. When the sale comes first, and the truth comes… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
Our future rates of gain will fall far short of those achieved in the past. Berkshire's capital base is now simply too… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Built to flip' should not be a dirty phrase or unnatural act. I believe that to succeed today, entrepreneurs must not only… — Basil Peters Copy Share Image
The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money… — Victor Sperandeo Copy Share Image
If you don't have ample liquidity, and it's not durable, in times of stress, as you're looking for liquidity, you're forced to… — Ruth Porat Copy Share Image
With the premise that we look for technical co-founders to run a company, I view myself as being a coach to that… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
The single greatest line I ever wrote as an analyst was after Lomas said they were hedged: 'The Lomas Financial Corporation is… — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
To a value investor, investments come in three varieties: undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another price, and overvalued at still… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one… — Michael Franzese Copy Share Image
DaimlerChrysler made significant progress in the year 2005, but our earnings are still not where we want them to be. We intend… — Dieter Zetsche Copy Share Image
There is a secret to investing that cuts a path directly to the profits that you're looking for. The secret is simplicity.… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
At the heart of Erisa is the requirement that plan fiduciaries act with an 'eye single' to funding the retirements of plan… — Eugene Scalia Copy Share Image
One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the… — Philip M. Condit Copy Share Image
“Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson famously defined “entrepreneurship” as “the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.” I give… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Earnings don't move the overall market; it's the Federal Reserve Board... focus on the central banks, and focus on the movement of… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
Taking this view, it is possible to see financial markets as a laboratory for testing hypotheses, albeit not strictly scientific ones. The… — George Soros Copy Share Image
When VAR was first introduced I think it was used regularly to try to get the right decision. But I think the… — Eddie Howe Copy Share Image
Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
