"In the US you, had ten bad years in a row (during the Great Depression) and it still turned out to be a pretty good century," said Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.
"Where a calculator on the Eniac is equipped with 18,000 tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes, and weigh 1.5 tons," said Popular Mechanics magazine in 1949.
“There are no winners in trade wars. It’s just a question of who loses the most,” said former Fed governor Alan Greenspan.
"Every Napoleon meets his Watergate," said Yogi Berra, former manager of the New York Yankees.
“Humans are vastly underestimated,” said Tesla founder Elon Musk.
“First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure,” said the humorist, Mark Twain.
“Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have a voodoo doll about each and every one of us regarding each and every touchpoint of our lives. They’re as much a part of us as our kidney or our legs,” said Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners.
When the legendary economist, John Maynard Keynes, was asked if the world had ever seen a Great Depression before, he responded, “Yes, it was called the Dark Ages, and it lasted 400 years.”
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,” said General James Mattis, former US secretary of defense.
"In both the 1982 and 1990 gains, the market accelerated at the end. Lightening may not strike twice but we would advise against flying a kite in a thunderstorm," said Laszlo Birinyi of Birinyi Associates.