Andy Kessler Quotes

Economists may insist we are running a trade deficit, but in reality, we are running a margin surplus.

By the way, I love paradoxes.They usually mean someone doesn't understand what's really going on and you can invest in things other people "can't know." I start salivating when I hear that word paradox.

The stock of the greatest company in the world is crap if every investor already thinks it is the greatest company in the world.

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.

When you think long-term, the edge is really investing because others can't know.

You invest in companies with great long-term prospects.

A product lowers the cost of doing something and eventually, customers will figure this out and buy the stuff in big volume, but they're not going to buy yet. You've got to have real conviction to step up and own this kind of company-you're staring over the edge of the waterfall, not sure when the growth is going to start.

But the stock market is not 1:1-it is not a zero sum game. So those deaf, dumb and blind economists can't find the capital flows.

Think about it- the King James Bible took religion out of the hands of the high priests and put it in to the hands of the people. An entire generation became literate just to be able to read the King James version of the Bible.

But I was confused. Here we were scrambling around looking under rocks for great long-term investments, and every other hedge fund, or so it seemed, was doing some funny hedge of cheap yen money and T-bills. That's investing?

I think what I learned is that wealth comes not just from taking risk but from constantly taking risks.

But someone knew and made a killing. It was investing when you know something no one else knows.

When someone pukes up a stock, it's not hard to miss. Mispriced securities all over the table. And we are there with a barf bag, collecting all we can.

The stock market teaches you the hard way - it's all in the margin.

Wealth really is a never-ending process. So is running money. You can't just walk away and ask about the meaning of life.