Organized crime learned their lessons from John D. Rockefeller.It’s much more efficient to control a market and boost the price 10 percent than it is to run a loan-sharking business on the street, where you actually have to use a baseball bat and collect every week.-said Eliot Spitzer
This is the only game where wealth and success is GUARANTEED – all you have to do is put your head down, do what you think is right and try your best. And be there. Building while the market gives you nothing, so that when it finally does – and it will – you get to go along.
Street Life will break you down at times but over the long haul it will be good to you. Provided you don’t take the detours or cheat to get ahead. Provided you don’t fall off or get taken out before your time.Because the final rule, and the most important one, is this:
Outlast the bastards.
–wrote Josh Brown in TRB
Buffett early on recognized the secret of successful investing: Any kid can make a buck; grown-ups know how to keep it.-wrote Jonathan Burton
“Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy!I’m going to fucking bury that guy! I have done it before and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google.”- said Microsoft CEO, Steve Balmer
If I can give you one piece of financial advice, it’s: If somebody offers you a guaranteed 7% on your money for the rest of your life, you take it and just make sure the guy’s name isn’t Madoff.- said Mayor Michael Bloomberg