About Quote by Jon Lovett

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

— Rich Sommer

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so…

— Warren Buffett

I bought my first stock in 1942, in the summer of '42. I was 11 years old. And so 75 years have gone by.…

— Warren Buffett

My job was to find stocks that were undervalued.

— Walter Schloss

“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

What I want people to know is I went to Wall Street before the crash. I was the one saying you're going to wreck…

— Hillary Clinton

I liked the results of the profits in the markets.

— Walter Schloss

People who want to know how stocks fared on any given day ask, "Where did the Dow close?" I'm more interested in how many…

— Peter Lynch

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

I covered financial news and Wall Street for a decade.

— Margaret Brennan

“Within five minutes – from 14:42 to 14:47 – the Dow Jones dropped by 1,000 points, wiping out $1 trillion. It then bounced back,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Too few people in my old field of financial services were ever brought to book for their part in the 2008 crash.

— Andrea Leadsom