Customer Quotes · Page 25

Historically venture capital funds have only allowed elite investors in.

— Brock Pierce

Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.

— St. Jerome

If you take a salesman, who sells a useless commodity, he feels like a fraud.

— Erich Fromm

If you're not serving the customer, your job is to be serving someone who is.

— Jan Carlzon

Investment is a flighty bird which needs to be controlled.

— Sir John Richard Hicks

The most powerful concept in marketing is owning a word in the prospects mind.

— Al Ries

“A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends”

— Anonymous

In life, in the media, and everything, people focus way too much on founders.

— Patrick Collison

Many of the smaller banks have had to get to the point where they now have more compliance people than they have…

— Wilbur Ross

The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather…

— Morton Shulman

“10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.”

— Ramesh Selvarajoo

In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose

— Bernard Baruch

“The classic sign of a shitty startup idea is that it requires at least two (or more!) miracles to succeed. This”

— Antonio Garcia Martinez

Long-term investing has gotten so popular, it's easier to admit you're a crack addict than to admit you're a short-term investor.

— Peter Lynch

“The police are among those that supply extremely poor customer service to their customers.”

— Steven Magee

The 'boom-bust' cycle is generated by monetary intervention in the market, specifically bank credit expansion to business.

— Murray Rothbard

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its…

— J. C. Chandor

Son, a man’d brand Is his own special mark That says this is mine, leave it alone. You hire out to a…

— Red Steagall

I might say that when the settlement was made the Nixon administration issued what they called a second inflation alert in which…

— Leonard Woodcock

We often say if you have traction, lead with traction. Talk about specific customers, usage numbers, revenue metrics - anything like that…

— Dave McClure

“Another common strategy used by convenience stores is to sell a cup of coffee in a store brand cup and offer refills…

— James Dion

Make the financial industry pay for its mistakes. That's the idea behind the best of the Obama administration's reform proposals: If banks…

— David Ignatius

“Once an expectation of promotions is established, retailers are motivated to buy as much of their turnover as possible during promotions, often…

— Greg Thain

“The role had been spawned by the widespread belief that traders didn’t know how to talk to computer geeks and that computer…

— Michael Lewis

You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business. You can be a social entrepreneur focused on the…

— Steve Case

The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they…

— Benjamin Graham

A lot of these things have hurt the average American. When they look at the banks and they say, "Well, the bank's…

— Jamie Dimon

A conventional valuation which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable…

— John Maynard Keynes

[In picking stocks] You really have to know a lot about business. You have to know a lot about competitive advantage. You…

— Charlie Munger

I think there's an awful lot of twaddle and bullshit on EVA. The whole game is to turn retained earnings into more…

— Charlie Munger

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money,…

— Charlie Munger

Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise…

— Oliver DeMille

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

— Thomas Peterffy

“WASHINGTON—Citigroup Inc. failed to get Federal Reserve”

— Anonymous

Let's turn inflation over to the Post Office. That'll slow it down.

— Mo Udall

Bolthouse is a great strategic fit with Campbell.

— Denise Morrison

Limits should be placed on how big big banks can become.

— Robert Reich

“Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money”

— Alexander Elder

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

— Benjamin Graham

I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

— Payal Kadakia