Customer Quotes · Page 175

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

— Mike Farrell

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

— Seth Klarman

“Listen to your customers, not to the HiPPO,” HiPPO being short for “highest paid person’s opinion.”

— Pedro Domingos

We basically followed the idea of buying comapnies selling below working-capital - at two thirds of working-capital.

— Walter Schloss

“When you promote and market yourself, your service, your product - it cannot be from a script or textbook - it must…

— Joseph C. Kunz Jr

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

— Alex Berenson

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

— Michael LeBoeuf

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

— Jay Samit

At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward…

— Matt Taibbi

Credit-default swaps remedied the problem of open-ended risk for me. If I bought a credit-default swap, my downside was defined and certain,…

— Michael Burry

I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational.…

— Paul Samuelson

The Federal Reserve, like other central banks, wields powerful tools; democratic accountability requires that the public be able to see how and…

— Ben Bernanke

Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We…

— Seth Klarman

The thing I preach constantly is do your research; build your knowledge base. Don't just go into business on a whim or…

— Theo Paphitis

The problem is that you go to the PUBLIC FOOL SYSTEM and they're NOT about training you on CONTRACTS on the PRIVATE…

— Jack Smith

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business…

— Michael Gerber

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big…

— Hamdi Ulukaya

Entrepreneurs are always super optimistic. If they weren't they wouldn't be entrepreneurs.

— Heidi Roizen

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

— James Cash Penney

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very…

— J. Paul Getty

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

— Josh James

“One common mistake we see new entrepreneurs especially tech entrepreneurs making is focusing too much on product”

— Abdul Jaleel Kavungal Kunnumpurath

“Your brand will be called on upon when it's needed. When it's not needed at the moment, keep it safely till it's…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Don't go and invest across the country somewhere that you don't know. Invest in a market that you know, because there are…

— Drew Scott

By the time that product is ready to be distributed widely, it will already have established customers.

— Eric Ries

If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual…

— Peter Lynch

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

— Sam Altman

Much success can be attributed to inactivity. Most investors cannot resist the temptation to constantly buy and sell.

— Warren Buffett

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

— Benjamin Graham

I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention…

— Alan Green

If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it…

— Gregory Meeks

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

— Martin O'Malley

The biggest mistake businesses make is advertising before they have become well known.

— Jeffrey Gitomer

[Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

— Peter Drucker

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs.

— Chad Hurley

According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary…

— Harry Enfield

What became clear is there had been a systemic trend across the U.S… markets had come to be controlled by a very…

— Lina Khan

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.

— John C. Bogle

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment…

— Michael Shannon

The elements of good trading are: 1, cutting losses. 2, cutting losses. And 3, cutting losses. If you can follow these three…

— Ed Seykota