Market Quotes
-
Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.
Friedrich August von Hayek
-
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.
Gerald M. Loeb
-
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
Esther Dyson
-
In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.
Alan Abelson
-
Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.
Bill Gates
-
We are very pleased with our accelerated time to market as evidenced by delivering the market's first workforce optimization solution, and the ability to meet our customers' requirements and changing needs even more effectively. Key to this was our relationship with FCG India, many of whose employees will soon join Witness Systems' global R&D organization. The initial impact they've had on the business has been significant, and we look forward to many more achievements and successes driven out of this arm of our R&D operation.
Ed Murray
-
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
Esther Dyson
-
It's our government; just leave us alone and... let the free market create the jobs.
Stephen Fincher
-
I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.
Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda
-
She loved to stand in the middle of a market square, or a park, or a beach and take in the smells and the sounds of a world that was completely new to her. she loved being an anonymous extra in a crowd scene, like some real-life where's waldo - a tiny face, wide-eyed with wonder, in a vast, ever-changing picture.
Elizabeth Noble
-
It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.
Harry Markowitz
-
Our job is to understand where the market is heading and translate that into practical action.
Beth Comstock
