Just as the 1929 crash and its aftermath destroyed Hoover’s presidency, so the ascent of the US stock market, from late 1994 to the
Business Quotes
Mary Lou Cook
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
Eunice Barnard
Women are at last taking a hand in man’s most exciting capitalist game. For the first time they have the interest, the self assurance,
Edward Chancellor
In the stock market of the Roaring Twenties, Americans found a secular religion whose lucid qualities, cynicism, and materialism reflected the zeitgeist of the
Edward Chancellor
In a democratic society such as the United States, where wealth is the ultimate determinant of status, there lingers a constant fear of being
Samuel Johnson
Gambling: the redistribution of wealth without an intermediate good.
London Spectator
The millionaires of America make corners as if they had nothing to lose. Let some amuse themselves financing as if it were only an
Edward Chancellor
At times, the transfer of risk in the stock market goes beyond the inevitable risks of business and becomes an end in itself. Under
Max Weber
in the US, “the pursuit of wealth, stripped of its relgious and ethical meaning, tends to become associated with purely mundane passions, which often
Harriet Martineau
The charm was in the excitement – in the pleasure of sympathy in large enterprises – in the rousing of the faculties of imagination