The average man doesn't wish to be told that it is a bull or a bear market. What he desires is to… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
Manipulating the bond market is so greatly reducing the cost of capital that so far companies have been able to maintain profit… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
History has recorded nothing so dramatic in design, nor so skillfully manipulated, as this attempt to create the National Reserve Association, or… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Look at what is average in your area, your industry, and your company and then be better. That could be as simple… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The crash of 2008 was driven in no small part by unfair practices in the mortgage industry which led to many consumers… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always… — Charles P. Kindleberger Copy Share Image
The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“It removes information from the market when I need more and more...Indexing is a waste heap--information so merged and muffled that it… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt… — Steve Eisman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung… — Peter Hay Copy Share Image
Methinks, that a broker, however good and savvy, will only speak about the stock that interest him after he has bought enough… — Sucheta Dalal Copy Share Image
My percentage of winners is only about 50/50, because I cut my losers very quickly. The maximum loss I allow is 7%,… — David Ryan Copy Share Image
Don't listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, they'd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut.… — Michael Cudlitz Copy Share Image
Targeting investment returns leads investors to focus on potential upside rather on downside risk ... rather than targeting a desired rate of… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or… — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are perennially short on cash, so they tend to hire less expensive and less experienced team members. Yet most founders are… — Martin Zwilling Copy Share Image
New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the… — John Lynch Copy Share Image
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“My practice keeps me engaged with salespeople in a wide variety of businesses and I’m increasingly concerned by a disturbing trend: It… — Mike Weinberg Copy Share Image
It's hard to put a figure on what level of inflation is appropriate. But I strongly feel that we would not be… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
“The average bull market runs about 165 weeks or roughly 3 years and the average gain is about 131 percent. As we… — David Skarica Copy Share Image
When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The number-one control you must have to be an investor is control over yourself. If you cannot control yourself, the highs and… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Getting an unsophisticated client was the golden prize. The quickest way to make money on Wall Street is to take the most… — Greg Smith Copy Share Image
The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's all about competitiveness: are you making the products that people really do want and value, and are you making it more… — Alan Mulally Copy Share Image
We've found that the more products our customers have with us, the longer they stay. It's about making sure we listen to… — Tricia Griffith Copy Share Image
Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will… — J. B. Pritzker Copy Share Image
“Care for your employees first, treat them with respect, empathy, and dignity, and they will care for your customers. When your team… — George Stamatis Copy Share Image
In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The key to investing is not assessing how much an industry is going to affect society, or how much it will grow,… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
First, those who disagree with market efficiency simply assert that it stands to common sense that greater effort to get facts and… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Working for company X and having a substantial portion of your retirement plan in company X is simply exposing yourself to too… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
