The great plains of prosperity

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Irving Fisher, economics professor at Yale University, 1929.

Fire

That stock is en fuego!

Jim Cramer, Mad Money

Run for the door

No one ever made a dime by panicking.

Jim Cramer, Mad Money

Infinite stupidity

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure
about the universe"

Albert Einstein

Fooling men

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

Bernard Baruch

Market share

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.

Steve Ballmer

horses and stocks

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

Joey Adams

honest merchants

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Charles Baudelaire

Don't give up

When it comes to money nobody should give up anything.

Anthony Trollope

Spiritual doom

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The cost of money

Money costs too much.

Ross MacDonald

Permanent unemployment

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

Julian Bond

Globalisation again

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

Larry Elder

Deeper and deeper

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.

Frederick Soddy

manufacturing a crisis

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.

Paul Sarbanes

lack of education

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Woody Allen

bankruptcy of a soul

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

Eric Hoffer

Hell

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

Frank Borman

Whack the bosses

The thing that mattered was that lads like me had whacked the bosses and the landlords, had taken their factories, their lands and their banks.

Harry Pollitt

Appropriation

We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

Lamar Alexander