"As successful as solar has become, there was a bloody road of corporate carnage to get there," said Joel Makower, chairman of the GreenBiz Group.
“Apple is an electric utility now. People don’t want them changing the wall sockets. People will pay them not to change,” said Roger McNamee, cofounder of venture capitalist Elevation Partners.
“The car business is hell,” said founder Elon Musk, when announcing he would sleep in the Fremont Tesla factory until Model S production reached 2,500 units a week.
"A fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others," said Otto von Bismarck, the first Chancellor of Modern Germany.
“I looked all over the basement when I was at the White House, and there is no big lever you can throw to make things good again,” said Austin Goolsby, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors.
"Bull markets go everywhere from 1-2 years to five years after the Fed begins tightening. We've got a long way to go before we have to worry about bonds competing against stocks," said Professor Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School of Business
“Lower yields, for longer, and lingering. I don’t think we’re going to get to an end for some period of time. The money that has been pumped into the system is going to keep equities high,” said Mark Grant, managing director of Hilltop Securities.
“It’s easier to get out of Cuba than to get out of Facebook,” said a market analyst.
“You always sound smarter when you’re a bear than when you’re a bull,” said Adam Parker formerly of Morgan Stanley.
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau,” said economist Irving Fisher….just before the 1929 stock market crash.