"Savers are losers," said a radio ad for a mortgage broker in Reno, Nevada.
"They say when you get old, you become wise. The truth is that when you get old, all the people who know you are stupid are dead," said the late comedian Joan Rivers.
“The rule book on how things are done and how they will play out you can just throw away right now,” said Scott Minerd of Guggenheim Partners.
"Send us your freaks," said an Amazon human resources executive to a temp agency during its early days.
"Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use," said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings.
"Everything is expensive now. Worries about the future can cause safe assets to become highly-priced...I call it the 'Titanic Effect.' When the Titanic was going down, people would pay a fortune for anything that floats. We may be in a Titanic situation now," said my buddy, Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller.
"We've seen the S&P 500 drop 50% twice in the last two decades. That is the new normal," said Richard Kang of Emerging Global Advisors.
"Though the preachers of pessimism prattle endlessly about America's problems, I've never seen one who wishes to emigrate (though I can think of a few for whom I would happily buy a one-way ticket)," said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett.
"Traders are very good at looking at the second hand on the clock, but not so good with the hour hand," said Gene Munster of venture capital firm Loup Ventures.
"By historic, fundamental measures, stocks are extremely high. PE multiples are at 100-year highs. But if you look at stock prices relative to interest rates, they are exactly where they should be," said hedge fund legend, Stanley Druckenmiller.