Back when Quote by Warren Buffett

As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea Bubble, they…

— Howard Warren Buffett

You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all…

— Howard Warren Buffett

One of the first big bubbles, of course, was the huge and horrible South Sea Bubble in England. And the aftermath was interesting. Many…

— Charlie Munger

“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

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well…

— Anonymous

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

“The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay…

— Michael Pollan

The late 90s were crazy science-fictional if you were inside the superheated steam bubble of the dot-com 1.0 industry.

— Charles Stross

Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming…

— George Will

Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left…

— Tim O'Reilly

A major boom in real stock prices in the US after Black Tuesday brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was…

— Robert J. Shiller