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