“The only surprise to me is that so many people were surprised,” said Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, about the financial crisis he predicted.
“Over the long term, all of the fiat currencies of the world are involved in a competitive devaluation. The structural stresses in most of the western economies are such that central banks will attempt to continue to substitute liquidity for solvency,” said Rick Rule, director, president and CEO of Sprott U.S. Holdings, a precious metals specialist.
“There is no sign of a recession anywhere,” a major bank economist told me in September 2007.
“There’s a lot of performance anxiety out there right now. There’s nothing worse than sitting on cash watching a market go up double digits,” said Tom Lee, chief US equity strategist of JP Morgan.
“The French have more fun in one year than the English do in ten,” said John Adams, America’s second president, and one-time ambassador to Paris and London.
“This turning 80 thing is not all it’s cracked up to be,” said Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger.
“If you’ve lived long enough on Wall Street, you know that we shoot our wounded and eat our young,” said Brad Hintz, an analyst with Sandford Bernstein.
“There’s a 70% chance the whole thing will fail,” said Jeff Bezos when pitching his parents for a $100,000 investment in his startup, Amazon (AMZN) in 1994.
“If you look at newspaper headlines every day for the past 50 years, they’re almost always negative. If you look at the economy every day for the past 50 years it’s always positive,” said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett.
"The level of fact available from news services is way less than it once was," said Roger McNamee, co-founder of venture capital fund Elevation Partners.
