“Believe nothing that you hear, and half of what you see,” said the legendary investor, Ron Baron.
“Getting information off of the Internet is akin to trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom,” said Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones," said Nobel Prize winner Albert Einstein.
"The things that affect the investment world so profoundly are the things that were not foreseen. If they could be foreseen ... anticipated and adjusted to and factored into prices, they wouldn't have that cataclysmic effect," said legendary investor Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital.
“The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money,” said President James Madison, America’s fourth president.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty," said the late British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
“If you die a rich person, you’ve failed,” said steel pioneer Andrew Carnegie, who gave away $11 billion during his lifetime, including building a library in every town in the United States.
“The worst of loans are made in the best of times,” said legendary Investor Howard Markets of Oaktree Capital.
"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.
"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.
