Awful Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

This may surprise you, but there were a large number of valuable buys during the Depression.

— Irving Kahn

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies…

— Christina Romer

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds…

— Ben Bernanke

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks…

— Bernard Madoff

“Because in America there is a naive belief that we are all rugged individuals and can make it on our own, stock market and…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

— Benjamin Graham

As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving…

— Robert J. Shiller

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

— Mark Ravenhill

“After the stock market crash, some New York editors suggested that hearings be held: what had really caused the Depression? They were held in…

— Studs Terkel

As I have said before, the daily machinations of the stock market are like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and…

— John C. Bogle

The stock market was relieved that the Fed didn't sound tougher, and the stock market seems to figure that everything they like about Donald…

— David Wessel

I have never invested directly in stocks and shares. That's never been my type of speculation.

— John Virgo