Business Quote by Clayton M. Christensen

I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave…

— Warren Buffett

“There were several immediate reasons for the stock market’s reversal. The excesses of the dot-com boom had begun to wear on investors. Companies without…

— Brad Stone

The first thing I ever invested in was Twitter. Blaine Cook, former CTO, was leaving the company and asked me if I wanted to…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this…

— Studs Terkel

Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long…

— Charlie Munger

I was one of the founders in, in that, the three of us all had the, had the founder's stock.

— Arthur Rock

I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where Id give tips on shares. I worked there for two and…

— Adam Faith

The very first stock I bought right out of college was Berkshire Hathaway.

— Christie Hefner

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

— Eric Yuan

There was a time when a company could not sell its shares to the public unless its revenues were growing and it was turning…

— Daniel Lyons

“Berkshire Hathaway Public Holdings April 4, 2012 Company Holding Value Stake The Coca-Cola Company (KO) $14.69 billion 8.8% International Business Machines (IBM) $13.17 billion…

— David Andrews

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

— Jack Kilby