Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting. — James Rickards Copy Share Image
In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys. — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Our purpose, as we face these challenges, remains clear - fair and orderly markets that allow for efficient capital formation, while protecting… — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
The principal investors in the South African economy are South Africans. And this is something, I think, we should really pay attention… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Investors don't like uncertainty. The market is telling us that they need certainty, they need to see where the economy is heading.… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives,… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Wall Street is perhaps the most powerful economic and political force in this country. You have companies like Goldman Sachs, who just… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time… — Michael LeBoeuf Copy Share Image
Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
As value investors, our business is to buy bargains that financial market theory says do not exist. We've delivered great returns to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Still, I figure we shouldn't' discourage fans of actively managed funds. With all their buying and selling, active investors ensure the market… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators.… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high… — Cliff Asness Copy Share Image
A global financial cabal engineered a fraudulent housing and debt bubble [2008], illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the US;… — Catherine Austin Fitts Copy Share Image
Given that ever-broadening array of options and alternatives, as consumers and investors, we are often bewildered. We need guidance. That's where today's… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long… — John Paulson Copy Share Image
I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio… — Paul Wolfowitz Copy Share Image
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare. — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
When markets go down, opportunities go up for smart real estate investors. I would much rather play the downturn than the upturn. — Harry S. Dent Copy Share Image
The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools. — Nancy Dunnan Copy Share Image
To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk,… — Stephen Frears Copy Share Image
In real estate, many investors love triple net leases. With NNN's investors receive income without the expenses of taxes, repairs and insurance.… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they… — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The markets represent the aggregate interaction of many investors. Their attitudes, philosophies, and behavioral patterns on many levels are predictable... and repetitive. — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
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