Successful investment is a battle for financial survival.

Successful investment may become substantially a matter of techniques and criteria that are learnable, rather than the product of unique and incommunicable mental powers.

— Benjamin Graham

The New York Times is fighting desperately for its relevance and its financial survival. And it probably won't even be around in a few…

— Donald Trump

“It has long been the prevalent view that the art of successful investment lies first in the choice of those industries that are most…

— Benjamin Graham

If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous.

— William Eckhardt

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and…

— Toshihiko Fukui

Furthermore, the financial and social investment in prisons means that black and brown youth become, essentially, fodder for the machinery of capitalized incarceration. The…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business…

— Glenn Hubbard

Occasionally we are asked whether it would make sense to modify our investment strategy to perform better in today's financial climate. Our answer, as…

— Seth Klarman

Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments

— Brian Tracy

The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash…

— Jeffrey Skoll

The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact…

— James Surowiecki

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until…

— Dan Gelber

Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998…

— Bill Gross

A faithfully kept program of savings and conservative investments can give you more money and a better life than that of your neighbors who…

— Jane Bryant Quinn

Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term…

— Barry Ritholtz