Markets Quotes

Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

Investment success does not require glamour stocks or bull markets.

It seems to me that at least as far as the financial markets are concerned, there is increasing evidence against rational expectations, even at the macro level.

My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Even in financial markets, the concept of market efficiency does not hold.

Diversify. But carve out 10 to 20 percent for the most unloved part of the market: emerging markets value.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.

The other week I wrote a piece on a photograph I got at a flea market, and I got about 70 hits. I think a lot of people must be interested in flea markets.

Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ?

There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

Countries adopting free-market capitalism have increased output 70-fold, halved work days and doubled lifespans.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

Marketing without sales is dead.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.

10/20/30 Rule in my book can level the playing field for a retail forex trader to trade alongside big banks and hedge funds.

An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.

A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

Libertarians make no exceptions to the golden rule and provide no moral loophole, no double standard, for government.

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.