Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

Markets that don’t work we’re going to step away from.

I’m really excited about anything that is able to address the really big markets, so anything that’s universally appealing.

No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that...

When I was a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; ” that business minded people...

The overwhelming tendency of markets is to bring people together, break down prejudices, persuade people of the need to cooperate regardless of class, race, religion, sex/gender, and physical ability. The same is obviously and especially...

Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

The ECB’s interventions in sovereign bond markets should not be perceived or interpreted as a ‘freebie’ for governments. They are temporary.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

The valuations which result in determination of definite prices are different. Each party attaches a higher value to the good he receives than to that he gives away. The exchange ratio, the price, is not...

Dominate the market with your products of self-control; no matter how many temptations produced by the devil, you will still overcome with profits of excellence!

I was convinced that I was totally incompetent in predicting market prices – but that others were generally incompetent also but did not know it, or did not know they were taking massive risks. Most...

If market pricing is the only legitimate test of quality, why are we still bothering with proven theorems? Why don’t we just have a vote on whether a theorem is true? To make it better...

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Markets love volatility.

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It’s extremely liberating. I breathe differently.

This is not one of those situations where I think you can just jawbone industry into making the investment, … This is not something that the markets alone will correct. We will have to use...

You invite a few players in to start a game of Texas Hold’em by telling them that the deck doesn’t have any jacks or queens in it and that you won’t tell the other people...

… toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the...

Entrepreneurship is when an individual retrieves a red hot idea from the creativity furnace without the constraint of the heat of lean resources, and with each persistent blow of the innovation hammer shapes the still...

It was the job of people like me to make up reasons, to spin a plausible yarn. And it’s amazing what people will believe. Heavy selling out of the Middle East was an old standby....

In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else’s mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the...

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.