Poor businesses worry about their competitors. Good businesses worry about their customers. Great businesses worry about their employees. — Alexander Den Heijer Copy Share Image
The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Calculate a stock's price/earnings ratio yourself, using Graham's formula of current price divided by average earnings over the past three years. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The Federal Reserve is committed to fulfilling our statutory mandate of stable prices and maximum employment. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
The intelligent investor is likely to need considerable will power to keep from following the crowd. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call.… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Being an # entrepreneur is not a get-rich scheme; it takes # strength of character to keep going. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard… — Lawrence Eagleburger Copy Share Image
One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails… — John Hull Copy Share Image
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Every bubble consists of a trend that can be observed in the real world and a misconception relating to that trend. The… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The least punk thing I ever did was open a money market account. Blue chip stocks. Mutual funds. They're a very safe… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are… — Stephen Cambone Copy Share Image
The idea that when people see prices falling they will stop buying those cheaper goods or cheaper food does not make much… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
The starting point is to create a qualitative understanding of market drivers. You need to get into the head of the consumer… — Michael J. Silverstein Copy Share Image
Borrowing money on what's called 'easy terms,' is a one-way ticket to the Poor House. If you think it ain't a Sucker… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Whatever people say, I do think there is a good side to Wall Street. It was created almost as a civic service… — Shia Labeouf Copy Share Image
The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Rule One. You must know the difference between an asset and a liability, and buy assets. If you want to be rich,… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
There are a few investment managers, of course, who are very good - though in the short run, it's difficult to determine… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Greenspan said that Nixon should declare that, rather than allow inflationary forces to be unleashed, he would back “a tax increase as… — Patrick J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A… — Al Ries Copy Share Image
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
In almost every walk of life, people buy more at lower prices; in the stock market they seem to buy more at… — James Grant Copy Share Image
Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
You have to know what your customers think about your product and where you sit, relatively speaking. You have to know what's… — Andy Jassy Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest things you need to be equipped before taking your entrepreneur plunge is to have a strong chemistry with… — Sandeep Aggarwal Copy Share Image
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
If you already have some amount of significant traction with customers, either in usage or in revenue, you should very quickly try… — Dave McClure Copy Share Image
The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque. — Heidi Roizen Copy Share Image
The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter. — Donald Luskin Copy Share Image
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?' — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
“Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home… — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
Buy low and sell high. It's pretty simple. The problem is knowing what's low and what's high. — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
