Financier

🇺🇸George W. Bush

Politics

1824–1900

"Every Iraqi atrocity has confirmed the justice and the urgency of our cause. Against this enemy we will accept no outcome except complete victory."

🇺🇸Robert Kiyosaki

Business

b. 1947

"Most people never see the trap they are in."

🇧🇷Steve Jobs

Business

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."

🇺🇸Rupert Murdoch

Business

b. 1931

"News — communicating news and ideas, I guess — is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels."

🇺🇸Jared Kushner

Business

b. 1981

"That doesn’t mean there’s not still a lot of pain and there won’t be pain for a while, but that basically was, we’ve now put out rules to get back to work. Trump’s now back in charge. It’s not the doctors."

🇺🇸Peter Thiel

Business

b. 1967

"Confirm . We know what a smartphone looks like and does. It's not the fault of Tim Cook, but it's not an area where there will be any more innovation."

🇮🇹Licio Gelli

Business

1919–2015

"We had Italy in our hands. We would never have wanted to attack, but we were like a sentinel, carefully ensuring that the Communist party should never emerge."

🇺🇸Anthony Scaramucci

Economics

b. 1964

"It's absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible. And as you know from the Italian expression: The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don't stink, and that's me and the President."

🇺🇸Peter Schiff

Literature

1963–2014

"It is a common misconception that low wages are the main factor influencing prices. The reality is that low capital costs, and the absence of taxation and regulation, are far more important."

🇺🇸Bernard Baruch

Politics

1870–1965

"I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat."

🇺🇸Andy Kessler (author)

Business

b. 1958

"I've been doing this for years. Never invest in a company with the target price for the stock in the name of the company."

🇺🇸Michael Dell

Business

b. 1965

"We have a long history here of integrating the technologies closer together. This is what customers have been asking us to do. It is what we are doing. It is working extremely well. There is much, much more to come here."

🇺🇸J. P. Morgan

Business

1837–1913

"is an evidence of banking, but it is not the money itself. Money is gold, and nothing else."

🇺🇸Benjamin Graham

Business

1894–1976

"It is a fact worth pondering that four centuries ago the evil of "an abundance or surplus" arose from its being kept off the market, while today the evil of surplus lies in its being thrown upon the market."

🇺🇸Sanford I. Weill

Business

b. 1933

"It's the new management's job to look at the world as it changes, and how do we look at change and take advantage of change, rather than put our head in the ground."

🇺🇸David Rockefeller

Business

1915–2017

"Partnership for New York City Web site: The Founder"

🇺🇸Robert T. Kiyosaki

Business

b. 1947

"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

🇺🇸Jim Rogers

Business

b. 1942

"If you bail out every investment bank that gets in trouble, that’s not capitalism, that’s socialism for the rich"

🇺🇸Al Gore

Politics

b. 1948

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

🇺🇸John Bogle

Business

1929–2019

"The principal role of the mutual fund is to serve its investors."

🇧🇬Iliyana Tsanova

Politics

b. 1976

"I'm surprised that in the era when we are talking about cryptocurrency and blockchain and self driving cars, we're still talking about equality between men and women."

🇺🇸Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Music

1877–1940

"Trade only when the market is clearly bullish or bearish."