Investment, Wall Street

The big money in booms is always made first by the public on paper, and it remains on paper.

- Wall Street

Everyone is wise after the event.

October, Thomas Bailey Aldrich

October turned my maple's leaves to gold;
The most are gone now; here and there one lingers.
Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold,
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), October

Money, Western Proverb

Money makes money.

- Western Proverb

Investments, Wall Street

There are times when one should invest, and just as surely there are times when one should not.

$ Wall Street

There is a time for all things.

Money, Robert W. Sarnoff

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

$ Robert W. Sarnoff

Stock Market, Wall Street

The stock market merely registers, and does not cause, what takes place in the realm of business and profits.

$ Wall Street

The market discounts everything but the completely unexpected.

Investors, Wall Street

Nobody can be successful by speculating every day or every week.

$ Wall Street

Many trades, many losses.

Investment, Wall Street

A man adapts himself to conditions so quickly that he loses the perspective.

- Wall Street

A lordly taste makes a beggar's purse.

Person, Michael B. Nash

A special person makes a difference.

- Michael B. Nash, a senior managing director of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Group

Investor, Wall Street

It is the duty of shareholders to periodically suffer loss without complaint.

- Wall Street

Investors will mistakenly think falling stock prices are bad.