Steinhardt Quotes

#1. Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

Joe Conason

#2. Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful.

James S.A. Corey

#3. When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required,

Michael Steinhardt

#4. In North America, the greatest threat to the Jewish people is not the external force of antisemitism, but the internal forces of apathy, inertia and ignorance of our own heritage.

Michael Steinhardt

#5. I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Michael Steinhardt

#6. Art is a form of asset. Hedge-fund managers who have made money fast should diversify into other areas.

Michael Steinhardt

#7. Helping others is the way we help ourselves.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. Throughout your life, you've been influenced by what you have done in the past, what you have been told you can and cannot do, and what your present circumstances seem to dictate.

Debbie Ford

#9. The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.

Michael Steinhardt

#10. When my mom and dad got married, they lived in south Boston, which is where the first six of my brothers were born. After that, they moved to Minnesota, which is where the other five of us were born. So there's 11 of us.

Denis McDonough

#11. For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.

Lance Gross

#12. Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.

Michael Steinhardt

#13. I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love.

Rob Zombie

#14. In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.

Michael Steinhardt

#15. If you want to know how fast the time is, here is the answer: Tomorrow is already a history!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

George Harrison

#17. Part of my attraction to ancient art is that there is an element of risk, of speculation.

Michael Steinhardt

#18. The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on Judaism. This is a turnoff in a world that is increasingly secular and that has turned away from religion. Jews are simply turning away from Judaism.

Michael Steinhardt

#19. You have to be intellectually honest with yourself and others. In my judgment, all great investors are seekers of truth.

Michael Steinhardt

#20. The markets are always changing, and the successful trader needs to adapt to these changes.

Michael Steinhardt

#21. When I was told that I was being offered a role in 'Miss Julie,' I already knew I wanted to do it.

Logan Marshall-Green

#22. Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.

Dito Montiel

#23. Time and again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only [bonds], you can almost close your eyes and [buy] stocks.

Michael Steinhardt

#24. A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

Michael Steinhardt

#25. Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Michael Steinhardt

#26. Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

Michael Steinhardt

#27. I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Richard Rohr

#28. A little part of my life is built around ancient art.

Michael Steinhardt