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.
Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Wall Street, Stock Market, Investing.
Just as the sound money policy of gold standard advocates went hand in hand with liberalism, free trade, capitalism and peace, so is inflationism part and parcel of imperialism, militarism, protectionism, statism and socialism.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Liberalism, Inflation, Gold, Socialism.
There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed, and those who don't know that they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor -the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.
- William Bernstein - Topics: Investing.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
- James A. Garfield - Topics: Central Bank.
The old saying holds. Owe your banker $1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him $1 million and the position is reversed.
- John Maynard Keynes - Topics: Debt.
One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
- Martin Luther King - Topics: Government.
Some experts have declared that it is necessary to tax the people until it hurts. I disagree with these sadists.
- Ludwig von Mises - Topics: Tax.
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
- Norman R. Augustine - Topics: Stock Market.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Wall Street, Investing.
Europe is just like the sinking Titanic: not even first class passengers can save themselves.
- Giulio Tremonti - Topics: Debt, Eurocrisis.
It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford - Topics: Banking System, Fiat Currency.
