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.
You can't borrow your way out of a debt crisis, whether you are a family or a nation.
- John Mauldin - Topics: Debt.
Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.
- Sir Josiah Stamp - Topics: Banking System.
Bitcoin is insurance against politicians.
- Naval Ravikant - Topics: Cryptocurrency.
Successful trading is always an emotional battle for the speculator, not an intelligent battle.
- Jesse Livermore - Topics: Trader, Stock Market.
By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
- John Maynard Keynes - Topics: Fiat Currency.
Austria was successful in pushing through policies that are popular all over the world. Austria has the most impressive records in five lines: she increased public expenditures, she increased wages, she increased social benefits, she increased bank credits, she increased consumption. After all these achievements she was on the verge of ruin.
- Fritz Machlup - Topics: Monetary Policy, Socialism.
The goal of the good trader, paradoxically, is not to make money. His goal is to trade well.
- Alexander Elder - Topics: Trader.
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.
How can anyone in his right mind think that our economic sluggishness is due to insufficient deficits and a timid Fed? Plenty do. It is a case of denial of an obvious fact: the entire Keynesian/government approach to stimulus has been a catastrophic failure.
- Robert P. Murphy - Topics: Monetary Policy.
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.
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.
