If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
- George Soros - Topics: Investing.
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.
There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.
- Peter Lynch - Topics: Investing, Money Management, Stock Market.
The correct conclusion in my view is that we need to be pre-emptive in avoiding these types of problems in the future. Monetary policy should not be aimed at cleaning up a mess, but leaning against the wind to avoid the mess in the future.
- Stephen Roach - Topics: Monetary Policy.
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
Once you think that something is improbable and everybody thinks it, people modify their behavior in a way that makes it more probable. Everyone thought it was so improbable that so many people would default on real estate, it actually created a greater probability that it would happen because more capital flowed into that sector.
- Lloyd Blankfein - Topics: Banking System, Stock Market, Wall Street.
They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all, that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves". Such pleasant dreams in the past have always been shattered by national insolvency or a runaway inflation. All government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation and inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.
- Henry Hazlitt - Topics: Government, Inflation, Tax.
Europe is just like the sinking Titanic: not even first class passengers can save themselves.
- Giulio Tremonti - Topics: Debt, Eurocrisis.
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
- Warren Buffett - Topics: Derivatives.
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. Compound interest is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.
- Albert Einstein - Topics: Investing.
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations - six if one went to Harvard.
- Edgar R. Fiedler - Topics: Economist.
Governments are like primitive cannibals feasting on a great treasure trove of sheeple. You can't force them out, and you can't vote them out. But you can sure as hell starve them out. When enough people pick up and leave, essentially voting with their feet, it accelerates the system crash.
- Simon Black - Topics: Tax, Government.
