“The best investors are visionaries—they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work,… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“During the first three months of this year, 18.8 percent of homeowners with a mortgage -- 9.7 million -- owed more on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the worst possible moment, when your fund is down because cheap things have gotten cheaper, you need to have capital, to… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
You have to look at the fundamental raison d'être of the business - what is it doing? What's the nature of the… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
Trying to move the volume of products we're talking about from place to place to get it ultimately into the customer's hands,… — Edward Lampert Copy Share Image
Barclays Bank in England purchased bankrupt Lehman Brothers Tuesday along with its Manhattan tower, saving nine thousand jobs. It's humiliating. The United… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
They don't take eyeballs at the bank. Those who value stocks by eyeballs should go be ophthalmologists, not stock analysts. There is… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
Whenever I take a position, I like to imagine what it would be like under the worst-case scenario. In doing so, I… — Gil Blake Copy Share Image
In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be… — Lars Frederiksen Copy Share Image
“Bezos scrawled I am not my stock price on the whiteboard in his office and instructed everyone to ignore the mounting pessimism.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it… — Michael Lee-Chin Copy Share Image
It's a very, very tough market. So unless you do a really good job, you buy the right products from the manufacturers,… — John Ilhan Copy Share Image
“Hypothesis: Client should enter the XYZ market. Consumer demand is strong, growing, and likely to stay that way. Client has a strong,… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
Your target market and their demographics realistically need to be in alignment with your own beliefs and morals, or you may have… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
The definition of investment is the deferring ofpresent consumption for future consumption. So, you dohave to be willing to defer. And there… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
We were presented with limited opportunities to get distribution when we went to retail, so we made the hard decision to build… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
Deal with complaints. If you give the complaint your attention, you may be able to please this one person this one time… — Susan Ward Copy Share Image
“Hypothesis: The client should enter one segment of the XYZ market. One segment of the market is growing and attractive. Client has… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
If youve got an industry where youve got massive investment, it doesnt matter whether you bring in alternative supplies. You still lose… — Arthur Scargill Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs saying they might be interested in such an investment. I'm familiar with the company. I've known the management, the current… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
You shouldn't be trying to create a system where no bank fails, but you should be creating one that catches a bank… — Bob Diamond Copy Share Image
In the subprime mortgage industry, bankers handed out iffy loans like candy at a parade because such loans meant revenue and, hence,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I believe that conventional marketing techniques are increasingly ineffective. Customers are hyped out. They have been overmarketed. They are becoming more cynical… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
“It’s better to think of distribution as something essential to the design of your product. If you’ve invented something new but you… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
Price erosion in components is quite fast. If you can capitalize on that by bringing products to the market faster, you will… — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
There's a lot of glorification of startups and being a founder. People brush the failures under the rug, but that's the worst… — Christopher Poole Copy Share Image
There is a well-established conviction that the central banks always do what is necessary to keep the system going and then afterwards… — George Soros Copy Share Image
On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes:… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days… — Sallie Krawcheck Copy Share Image
The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't. — Arthur Levitt Jr Copy Share Image
Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
Clearly the price considered most likely by the market is the true current price: if the market judged otherwise, it would quote… — Louis Bachelier Copy Share Image
