Investment Philosopher Gifts

'Ed, can you remember what that rumor was you had started at that time?'

'If stocks are up, bonds are down. If bonds are up, stocks are down. It's life's Yin and Yang.'

'Bulls and bears are my yin and yang.'

"Instead of getting a job this summer, I'm buying 50 lottery tickets every week."

'Whoever said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself' never had a room full of angry shareholders.'

"'Quid pro quo' is a no-no, Bradbury. Around here we say 'reciprocal altruism'."

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

'I clawed my way to the top and then I clawed my way back to the middle.'

"We need to reset our fiscal compass to the changing business horizon."

"I agree, the place was a tear-down, but I just remembered we were only renting it."

Wall St. or True Love.

"Actually, the district office is getting better results with a fresh garlic bagel."

"Actually, it's more like a mouse race."

'I don't know if money grows on trees, son. I know it doesn't grow in fields.'

"Gas. Regular. Premium. Super. You don’t want to know."

Economic Outlook Conference - 'Remember the seating is optimist, pessimist, optimist,...'

'It's crunch time, Caldwell. That's the time between when you're born, and when you make your first million.'

Flat tax - equal burden?

"Ahh... don't you just LOVE that new, re-organized-under-bankruptcy-protection smell?"

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

US dollar perched on fragile house of cards.

Pillaging, formerly Acquisitions Department

Stockbroker and Psychotherapist: Money won't make you happy and therapy won't make you rich.

Experience is important, so I'm inclined to leave questions of ethics to those who have them.

'. . .actually I'm not a real Guru, I was forced up here originally by the property prices.'

'I'm worried about all these unemployed. They're still on our payroll'

"You're allowed to think outside the box, as long as you stay inside the margins."

'Chin up, Simpson, it's for the good of the firm.'

'So, a bailout is like a Ponzi scheme for automakers?'

Money god

"I was a stockbroker first, but when I realized how much time I spent praying, I figured, what the heck?"

"Yes, I am interested in taking a fresh look at my holdings."

'Give it to me straight, Mr. Erskine. Is there a downside to unmitigated greed?'

Economic Downturns

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