"If horses could have voted, there never would have been cars," said my friend, Tom Friedman, a columnist at the New York Times.
“There is a better chance that hockey is banned in Thunder Bay, Ontario, than the USA seeing a sustained 4% GDP growth rate when oil is above $100/barrel,” said Keith R. McCullough, CEO of Hedgeye Risk Management.
"It is fine to have the longest view in the room, as long as the thing at the end of the vista is a gigantic hill of money," said John Lanchester of The New Yorker magazine.
“This isn’t a choice between vanilla and chocolate, folks! It’s all rocky road: a few marshmallows to get you excited before the elections, but with a lot of nuts to ruin the aftermath,” said the ever insightful Bill Gross at PIMCO.
“Babies born in America today are the luckiest crop in history,” said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett.
"Homo Sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission the natural selection, the force that made us," said E.O. Wilson, a Harvard University biology professor.
“If you advertise an interest in buying collies, a lot of people will call hoping to sell you their cocker spaniels,” said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet.
“Two incomes are better than one. So make sure your partner has two jobs,” said a retiring Concierge member.
"The future ain't what it used to be," said the former New York Yankees baseball manager, Yogi Berra.
“The money pouring out of the emerging markets is not bad for the US. We are the oasis in this situation,” said strategist Louis Navellier, of Navellier Associates.