Bitcoin's mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.’
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Topics: Cryptocurrency.
Europe is just like the sinking Titanic: not even first class passengers can save themselves.
- Giulio Tremonti - Topics: Debt, Eurocrisis.
The pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.
- Jesse Livermore - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market.
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
If you don't study any companies, you have the same success buying stocks as you do in a poker game if you bet without looking at your cards.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux, and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
The US has 75 trillions of unpaid for liabilities in a 15 trillion economy. How are we ever going to be pay for it? It's a number that cannot happen. So I don't worry about it. The far more interesting question is: what happens at the moment we realise that we can't pay 75 trillion?
- John Mauldin - Topics: Debt, Default, Government.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
- Thomas Jefferson - Topics: Government.
The progress of the enormous debts which at present oppress, and will in the long-run probably ruin, all the great nations of Europe, has been pretty uniform. (written in 1776)
- Adam Smith - Topics: Debt, Default, Government.
If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
- Herbert Stein - Topics: Stock Market.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Stock Market, Investing.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
- William Feather - Topics: Investing, Stock Market.
