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On Money & Wall Street

“I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth—one shred of evidence.” ~Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman

“The only thing useful banks have invented in 20 years is the ATM.” ~Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve Chairman

“Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.” ~ Warren Buffett

“There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don’t know where the market is headed, and those who don’t know that they don’t know. Then again, there is a third type of investor ~the investment professional, who indeed knows that he or she doesn’t know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.” ~William Bernstein

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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

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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

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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

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On Values

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” ~Bill Gates

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~Abraham Lincoln

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The laws and rules that govern the securities industry in the United States derive from a simple and straightforward concept: all investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it, and so long as they hold it." —U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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