“The cupidity centered on bank statements and shareholdings is more difficult to understand than the avarice of an Elizabethan trader.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends,… — Jim Cantalupo Copy Share Image
When enough individuals arrive at the same gut feeling, a company can be said to have a brand. — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Pricing is actually a pretty simple and straight forward thing. Customers will not pay literally a penny more than the true value… — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
The mood in the market is one of a high level of caution. When you get some selling coming in, it's almost… — Albert Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm so used to providing excellent customer service at the bookstore, but that's stamped out of me when I work at subway. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems. — Philip Arthur Fisher Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
We have moved from treating funds as investment trusts designed to serve their owner-beneficiaries to treating funds as consumer products, designed to… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
The first rule of trading - there are probably many first rules - is don't get caught in a situation in which… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
The American economy is going to do fine. But it won't do fine every year and every week and every month. I… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Vendors are becoming aware that their future relevance and viability will depend not on their salespeoples’ willingness to let the CIO beat… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“As always, behind the flow of money necessary for such mergers and acquisitions were the banks. Once there were hundreds of banks… — Jim Marrs Copy Share Image
“Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and microfinance pioneer, says, “All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“Life is so diversified that to any statement I could make about living organisms there are exceptions. Because of the many exceptions,… — Lee Spetner Copy Share Image
Facebook already has a large political ad sales and operations team that manages ad accounts for large campaigns. Zuckerberg hinted that the… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
However, if one has been playing the buy-and-hold game with quality securities, one has been exposed to a substantial amount of market… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
“Even your most loyal customers always have a choice about where to take their business.” — Marilyn Suttle Copy Share Image
In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009. — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The broker said the stock was "poised to move." Silly me, I thought he meant up.” — Randy Thurman Copy Share Image
Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives. — Peter Friedman Copy Share Image
Good customer service begins at the top. If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Buy a $100 US bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the US bond value diminish to… — Marc Faber Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not… — Robert D. Arnott Copy Share Image
“The thing about credit is that it’s not zero-sum. There’s room for everybody, and you’ll shine if other people are shining.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one. — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
