On Money & Wall Street
“When you combine ignorance and leverage you get some pretty interesting results.” ~Warren Buffett
"The most predictable thing about the stock market is the number of experts who take credit for predicting it." ~Dave Weinbaum
"It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong." ~George Soros
On Truth and Falsehood
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." ~Mark Twain
"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them." ~Charles Caleb Colton
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that." ~Homer Simpson
On Law and Lawyers
“If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.” ~Charles Dickens
"A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." ~Franz Kafka
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman." ~Louis D. Brandeis
On Economics
"A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." ~Kenneth Chang
A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.” ~Marty Allen
“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard).” ~Edgar R. Fiedler
On Values
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” ~Warren Buffett
"If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies." ~Jon Stewart
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." ~Abraham Lincoln


