George Goodman Quotes

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.

Somebody has to be on the other side.

All you need is a hell of an aperceptive mass, an IQ of 150, and a dollop of ESP, and you can ignore the headlines, because you anticipated them months ago.

The world is not the way they tell you it is.

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

You can be in love with that piece of paper if you want to, but that piece of paper doesn't love you,...

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

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.

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.

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.

When there is no game, don't play,...

Godliness is in league with riches.

You have to go for the quantum jumps.

It is a parable of pure capitalism, never jam today and a case of jam tomorrow; but as any of the Smiths will tell you, anyone who has ever sold IBM has regretted it.

The strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear.