George Goodman Quotes

Somebody has to be on the other side.

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

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 amazing how stupid one can be in graduate school, because while I was puzzling through L1(Y) = Y/V = M1, the income velocity of money, I missed all the fun.

Currencies do not vote.

In Freud's crowd, the individuals fasten on an object, substitute it for their ego ideal, and all those with the same ego ideal identify themselves with each other in their ego. Remove the object and you get anxiety.

But the investors who really follow the market, the ones who call up all the time, ninety percent of them really don't care whether they make money or not.

The phrase " the Gnomes of Zurich" was coined by George Brown, the Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain.

The strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear.

Godliness is in league with riches.

You have to go for the quantum jumps.

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

what moves is what is already moving. Sort of Newtonian.

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, and then, in the panic, they bought.

Most accountants are honorable men, trying to do a job. But they are hired by corporations, not by investors.