#market

When you're in the car, how well you do is down to you and you alone-no band, no management, no marketing. ↗

— Nick Mason

#car #down #how #management #marketing

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines. ↗

— Dick Morris

#antithesis #been #born #capitalism #challenge

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included. ↗

— Pola Negri

#became #because #came #changed #conservatism

Market segmentation s a natural result of the vast differences among people. ↗

— Donald Norman

#differences #market #natural #people #result

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#acknowledge #automatic #being #doors #enough

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#competitors #everyone #fear #go #going

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#budget #care #congressman #crafting #deal

The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#america #crisis #feeling #interested #long-term

Bullish or bearish are terms used by people who do not engage in practicing uncertainty, like the television commentators, or those who have no experience in handling risk. Alas, investors and businesses are not paid in probabilities; they are paid in dollars. Accordingly, it is not how likely an event is to happen that matters, it is how much is made when it happens that should be the consideration. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#reality-check #wisdom #business

Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.' Easier said than done for the vast majority of stock traders. ... On every stock trade there is someone who wants to sell and someone who wants to buy, at least at a particular price. ...the person who is selling thinks that she is getting out just in time while the person buying thinks that he is about to make good money. ... The truth is that the market doesn't really reflect some magical perfect valuation of a stock under the efficient market hypothesis. It reflects the mass consensus of how actual individual investors value the stock. It is the sum total of everyone's hopes and fears... ↗

— M.E. Thomas

#efficient-market-hypothesis #shares #sociopath #sociopathy #stock-market