Quotes About Financial Speculation

#1. The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of
other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."
Roger Lowenstein, reviewing "Devil Take the Hindmost: a History
of Financial Speculation", WSJ 6-1-99

Roger Lowenstein

#2. Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.

Dave Eggers

#3. Josh had a movie star jewfro and a smug little grin

Saira Viola

#4. There's no rerun of life. Rejoice while there's breathe.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. When you are a one-percenter, you live your life your way.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.

Pope Francis

#7. Workers are on the streets today with a clear message to Europe's leaders. There is a great danger that workers are going to pay the price for the reckless speculation that took place in financial markets.

John Monks

#8. But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

John Lanchester

#10. Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

Robert Baden-Powell

#11. An artist is a person first.

Chaim Potok

#12. Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

James Buchan

#13. We think there is an ecological problem, but the real problem is irresponsible growth of human population.

Jaggi Vasudev

#14. For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Charles Baudelaire

#15. Change your energy! Be genuinely positive. Have kind energy before you say kind words or do kind gestures. Affect other people positively.

Ilchi Lee

#16. For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Jackie Chan

#17. I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

Neneh Cherry

#18. The only reason to go into business is to make money. You have to work hard at it. If you're not passionate about it, you'll burn out so fast that it is incredible.

Dave Ramsey

#19. Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me!" Mem stared at her sister. "Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst?"
"Certainly not!" Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. "I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

Maggie Osborne

#20. We are linked and not ranked. Ever butty is equal, everyone is the same.

Amy Richards

#21. Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.

Jojo Moyes