In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
“Hypothesis: The client should enter one segment of the XYZ market. One segment of the market is growing and attractive. Client has… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank… — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
“It’s better to think of distribution as something essential to the design of your product. If you’ve invented something new but you… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
The government isn't going to say, "We're going to regulate banks, but we'll leave these other companies alone." I think the regulators… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
If you have your own currency, you have your own governance, so each currency becomes their own mini-government. Mini-government is a big… — William Mougayar Copy Share Image
Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
The role of liquidity in systemic events provides yet another reason why, in the future, a more system wide or macroprudential approach… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
If the angle you're going at is there's some kind of quid pro quo - there isn't. Business is business, and people… — Mike Miller Copy Share Image
Whereas most technologies tend to automate workers on the periphery doing menial tasks, blockchains automate away the center. Instead of putting the… — Vitalik Buterin Copy Share Image
The role of monetary policy is to smooth out business cycles by promoting steady inflation and healthy labor markets, but modern central… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't. — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes:… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged otherwise, it would quote… — Louis Bachelier Copy Share Image
Ron Paul's crazy talk about the Federal Reserve makes more sense these days. Right now, every - all this debt issued by… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Our focus is more on secured retail business like housing and car loans. While we will do some unsecured loans - credit… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
If we are going to go into a global currency fight against countries like China, well, the US has about 75, 76… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
Except for a handful of banks that just keep a handful of their loans in portfolio, on their balance sheet, every other… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
In evaluating potential vendors, accurately estimating total cost of ownership is critical. Yet, this is often an area where companies don't put… — Dan Gillmor Copy Share Image
Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has… — Guy Spier Copy Share Image
For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching… — Fred DeLuca Copy Share Image
To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the… — Harry Bassett Copy Share Image
I know what time a customer checked in, what he ordered, did it get delivered on time, did he order for sling… — Ritesh Agarwal Copy Share Image
As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
