If you burn out you aren't doing your customers or your investors or your employees any favors. You need to create a… — Justin Kan Copy Share Image
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Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand veils.' Only hard and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation,… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
We want to encourage investors to target businesses that focus on achieving more than just profits - by placing their money into… — Brad Duguid Copy Share Image
We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Investors are trying to work out some risk premiere that have some correspondence with actual risks. But they don't, they're not, they… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to… — Mary Schapiro Copy Share Image
To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The key to investment success is emotional discipline. Making money has nothing to do with intelligence. To be a successful investor, you… — Victor Sperandeo 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
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When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
When investors, particularly investment bankers, talk about splitting up companies, there's a lot of discussion about multiple expansion, and the reality is… — Irene Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
You need to be able to do that to market these possibilities to these specific investors who would be interested in a… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
But if our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
"Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
“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
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working… — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
Fannie Mae is owned by shareholders but operates under a federal charter that exempts it from paying state or local taxes. As… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
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I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
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