George Goodman

"Nothing works all the time and in all kinds of markets."

"Wall Street, as you already know, is part of Marshall McLuhan's vision of the world in the Electric Age, that is, a global village dependent on oral-aural communication."

"It is a parable of pure capitalism, never jam today and a case of jam tomorrow; but as any of the Smiths will tell you, anyone who has ever sold IBM has regretted it."

"Prices have no memory, and yesterday has nothing to do with tomorrow."

"You can be in love with that piece of paper if you want to, but that piece of paper doesn't love you,..."

"All the funds simply can't get through the exit door at the same time."

"The reason everybody signed up for a computer was that everybody else was signing up for a computer."

"When the Rothchilds got the word about the battle of Waterloo - in the movie it was by carrier pigeon - they didn't rush down and buy British consols, the government bonds. They rushed in and sold, an…"