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My market value increases with every outside critisism. Therefore, the frequently raised contention that I am the most highly critisized mountaineer does… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“Boston itself was a flea market of racism. It had all varieties, old and new. The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists,… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
Any time we would talk to another VC, our investors would talk him out of it: 'This is not a good company'...… — Sabeer Bhatia Copy Share Image
I've been really impressed at some of the investments that I've seen in community college and technical schools that are training young… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Let the corporations do as they please -- pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets -- and it is… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they… — Ozwald Boateng Copy Share Image
A single agency responsible for systemic risk would be accountable in a way that no regulator was in the run-up to the… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, which is the presumption of… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and… — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
There's always a question when you invest. Are you too early, are you too late, or are you just right? And there… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
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Go to the farmers market and buy food there. You'll get something that's delicious. It's discouraging that this seems like such an… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
The Fed is on hold at least through the election but I think we'll get a little more tightening at the start… — William C. Dudley Copy Share Image
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I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I've never met him, but I love the simplicity with which Warren Buffett describes good and bad businesses and how he makes… — Steve Easterbrook Copy Share Image
Market price, while used exclusively to value our investments in minority positions, is not a relevant factor when applied to our controlling… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
GE is falling under the same cloud of the market as a whole. Investors are not focused on the positives that are… — James Fisher Copy Share Image
We have a lot of secondary market problems in the U.K.; it's really bad there. And lots of artists are starting to… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes pervasive, sometimes specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“In good years, defensive investors have to be content with the knowledge that their gains, although perhaps less than maximal, were achieved… — Howard Marks Copy Share Image
I feel many responsibilities - to our customers, to our employees, to the environment, to the world at large. But I don't… — Ingvar Kamprad Copy Share Image
The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future… — Ron Lewis Copy Share Image
One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is much easier than competing in an open market. But it erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The Japanese always started with the market share of components first. So one would dominate, let's say, sensors, and someone else would… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
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The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because… — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
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It was not hard to persuade people that the market was sound; as always in such times they asked only that the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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