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Market Quotes by James Surowiecki
- The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.
- The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
- The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that…
- If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were…
- In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly…
- In industries where a lot of competitors are selling the same product - mangoes, gasoline, DVD players - price is the easiest way to distinguish…
- Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's…
- Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks…
- The paradox of Steve Jobs's career is that he had no interest in listening to consumers - he was famously dismissive of market research -…
- What corporations fear is the phenomenon now known, rather inelegantly, as 'commoditization.' What the term means is simply the conversion of the market for a…
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- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. — Francis Bacon
- Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter… — Michael Badnarik
- Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally. — Steve Ballmer
- The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. — Joey Adams
- The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible. — Bernard Baruch
- When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell. — Bernard Baruch
- Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety. — Bob Beauprez
- Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men… — Gary Becker