“Most inventions fail because the timing is wrong. Inventing is a lot like surfing. You have to anticipate and catch the wave just at the right moment,” said computer scientist and futurologist, Ray Kurzweil.
“Semiconductors are the new industrials,” said Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth Management.
“If politicians delivered everything they promised, there would be absolutely no reason to go to Heaven,” said American humorist Will Rodgers.
“No one is line dancing over the fact that the market is at 4,000. No one feels good about it. The market likes to climb a wall of worry, and the stonemason has been hard at work. So, I think we continue to grind higher,” said Jason Trennert, chief investment strategist at Strategas Research Partners.
"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
"No better friend, nor worse enemy," says the motto of First Division of the US Marine Corps.
When asked about the urban legend that the vaults at Fort Knox are empty, and that the Fed has no gold, former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke responded, "I've been to the basement of the New York Fed. The gold is there. I've seen it."
“It's very difficult to navigate a business through a paradigm shift. You must hard wire your system to second guess all the time, questioning what is next, and then what is next. You've got to retain optionality for both investment portfolios and the business you run to navigate this well,” said Mohamed El-Erian, former co-chairman of the bond house PIMCO.
"If you can get a dividend higher than the yield on ten year debt, it's an opportunity we haven't seen in our lifetime. On a five year horizon, investing in large multinationals with high dividends will have a large payday" said Lawrence Fink, CEO of Black Rock.
“You always sound smarter when you’re a bear than when you’re a bull,” said Adam Parker formerly of Morgan Stanley.
