August Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“The panic was blamed on many factors—tight money, Roosevelt’s Gridiron Club speech attacking the “malefactors of great wealth,” and excessive speculation in copper, mining,…

— Ron Chernow

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when…

— John Bright

In the 1930s, there was a stretch where you could borrow more against the real estate than you could sell it for. I think…

— Charlie Munger

Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke.…

— Howard Warren Buffett

“It took just over 15 years to recover the money invested at the 1929 peak, following a crash far worse than Smith had ever…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

Before the New York Times starts running "Portraits in Grief" of former Enron employees, it's worth remembering that even after the collapse, Enron stock…

— Ann Coulter

“would take only $1.33 million invested in the stock market in 1802 to grow, with dividends reinvested, to about $18 trillion, the total value…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

“The "new-era" doctrine - that "good" stocks (or "blue chips") were sound investments regardless of how high the price paid for them - was…

— Benjamin Graham

“When people tell you that this venerable firm or private investor invested X millions of dollars in that entity and that it is a…

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was…

— Clayton M. Christensen

The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying…

— Benjamin Graham

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