Quote of the Day for 2016-08-31

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."

— Warren Buffett (1930-    ) Quoted by Egbert Sukop in The Money Adventure (1998)

Crowds at Federal Hall on Wall Street during the Panic of 1907 (October 1907)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-03

"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."

— Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) The Matchmaker, Act 4

Melinda and Bill Gates meet with women in Jamsaut, Bihar, India (March 23, 2011) Photo by Prashant Panjiar

Quote of the Day for 2015-11-24

"A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."

— Mark Twain (1835-1910) Attributed

Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter and Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Quote of the Day for 2015-08-28

"[America is] just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."

— Hunter S. Thompson (1939-2005) Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, September

President Nixon, while Vietnam War protesters interrupted a campaign rally at the Nassau Coliseum
on Long Island, NY, October 23, 1972. (Photograph by Michael Evans for The New York Times)