?The dirty little secret in Washington is that the biggest doves wear uniforms. They have seen wars and they have seen consequences. They have also been sent into conflict and then seen political support evaporate. We need to be a lot more careful when deploying our military forces.? said former Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
?2014 will be the fifth year of living dangerously,? said Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research.
?Apple will never be a consumer products company,? said John Sculley, the Apple CEO who fired Steve Jobs in 1985. Today Apple is the world?s largest and most profitable consumer products company.
?Disco era security measures are not holding up so well with 2 billion people,? said Benedict Evans at venture capital firm Andreeson Horowitz.
?This could be the beginning of the end of the bond market,? said my friend, the legendary hedge fund manager, David Tepper.
?You always sound smarter when you?re a bear than when you?re a bull,? said Adam Parker of Morgan Stanley.
?When you hit ?SEND? on a text, you lose ownership of that text. Yet, you retain the responsibility for that text.? said Mark Cuban, a serial entrepreneur who just won a nasty case with the SEC.
?The Fed can print dollars, but it can?t print confidence,? said David Bianco, chief equity strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
?Confidence is like oxygen. You don?t notice until it?s gone, and then it?s the only thing you notice,? said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet.
It amazes me how quickly amnesia sets in,? said Stephen Crawford, former co-president of Morgan Stanley, about the willingness of hedge funds to re-leverage positions in these conditions.