Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“...the miserable love to watch someone else's misery. I had just about cornered the market on miserable. I was worse than miserable,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be… — Saffron Aldridge Copy Share Image
Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
In order to access private capital, you have to provide competitive return on investment. In order to give competitive returns to investors,… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“There has been much talk about the alleged exploitation of the debtor nations by the creditor nations. But if the concept of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Ever since we got married, my wife has tried to change me. She got me to stop drinking, smoking and running around… — Mark Copy Share Image
In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices… — Chris Ayres Copy Share Image
Republicans and Democrats have long recognized that our corporate tax system hamstrings business, reduces investment, and creates unfairness. Some corporations pay massive… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
Having witnessed the success of Acadian Ambulance firsthand over the years, I became a champion for the employee stock ownership plan business… — Charles Boustany Copy Share Image
If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential,… — Zhores Alferov Copy Share Image
“Graham’s definition of investing could not be clearer: “An invest- ment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said,… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts,… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes,… — Sarah Susanka Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a great guide to what's great for consumers, and, indirectly, for investors, you've got to be very… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
I've been looking for an opportunity to break into the Chinese market due to its devoted and passionate audience and have found… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
The euro zone was driven by the neoliberal view that markets are always efficient. That in itself is political. There was no… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“- Why don't you live on the school guards? - Because I own these building, Gansey said. Its a better investment than… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Daily life is better when it involves interactions with real people who have a personal investment in their labour, like shopkeepers, than… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or… — Bobby Sager Copy Share Image
Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
I got a Cabbage Patch doll from my mom when they were impossible to get. She later told me that she had… — Jessica Capshaw Copy Share Image
“Investors need to understand not only the magic of compounding long-term returns, but the tyranny of compounding costs; costs that ultimately overwhelm… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
During the last war when there was a market for everything that could be produced, the production capacity of Canada and the… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their… — Daymond John Copy Share Image
I love trawling through markets and vintage shops, and I make super-quick decisions about buying clothes. I also have my usual haunts… — Alice Temperley Copy Share Image
We've got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Foreign investors will not come and do things without any returns for themselves. And we don't expect them to come work for… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
