Customer Quotes · Page 164

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The best strategy is one that offers the highest compound return consistent with no risk of going broke.

— William Poundstone

In confusing stock options with ownership, corporations confuse trappings with substance.

— James Surowiecki

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

— Les Wexner

When we say "people worry" about inflation, it's mainly bondholders that worry. The labor force benefitted from the inflation of the '50s,…

— Michael Hudson

Markets may in the short-term correct. But in a bull market the correction is always sharp, swift and short-lived.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

You have to say that we are again in a massive financial bubble in bonds, in equities, in [other] asset prices that…

— Marc Faber

If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think…

— Charles L. Evans

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community's well being. If you're dedicated to your…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I often say Policy Planning is very analogous to a venture capital firm. A venture capital firm sees an interesting idea and…

— Jared Cohen

Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of…

— Thomas Sowell

It is a tenet of my investment style that, on the subject of common stock investment, maximizing the upside means first and…

— Michael Burry

The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price…

— Benjamin Graham

When you build a product, you make a lot of assumptions about the state of the art of technology, the best business…

— Steven Sinofsky

“Just because you can start a business doesn’t mean you should. Choose to start a business that fits you. Ignore advice that…

— Tyler Wagner

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

All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have…

— Charlie Munger

Marketing is your battle plan for the sales team - it's about defining the landscape. Marketing is doing cohort analysis and understanding…

— Joe Lonsdale

“latest contribution to Dagens Industri’s webcast, on the rise of market prices during the month of May, he said: “The stock exchange…

— David Lagercrantz

I just don't trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there's been another ridiculous climb of the Dow…

— Louis C. K

“Peter Drucker challenged executives to capitalize on “unexpected success.” He wrote: When a new venture does succeed, more often than not it…

— Chip Heath

“Money is just something you need in case you do not die tomorrow. Let this is a reminder for you not to…

— Yvan Byeajee

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or…

— Janet Yellen

Without a vision there is no possibility of creating something larger than what al-ready exists. An entrepreneur has to be able to…

— Tony Robbins

“Do you really have a business without being able to reach and motivate a customer?”

— John Jantsch

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

— Bhavish Aggarwal

The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.

— Adam Horowitz

Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

— Seth Klarman

One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.

— Michael Burry

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

— Adam Smith

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

— Bernie Sanders

The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.

— Jim Cramer

How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well,…

— Peter Senge

Monetary policy should never have been expected to shift economies to a sustainably higher growth trajectory by itself.

— Michael Spence

“Cater to your customers’ lifestyles. It will create instant rapport and a lasting sense of “I belong here.”

— Marilyn Suttle

Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.

— Mariana Mazzucato

I think there's something to be said for developing the disposition to own stocks without fretting.

— Charlie Munger

“As with all derivatives, these tools were to offer a way of controlling risk, but they could also amplify it.”

— Gillian Tett

To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time…

— Alexander Elder