The 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak caused many people to purchase surgical masks. Many people with symptoms wore masks. "I was queueing in the bank local branch this morning and 2 guys arrived…
President George W. Bush attended a July 2008 fundraiser in Houston, Texas for Republican congressional candidate Pete Olson. TV cameras were requested to be turned off, but at least one person…
Economist Paul Samuelson used his Newsweek column of September 19, 1966 to show that the market and that economists often get things wrong: "Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last…
American investor Warren Buffett doesn't trust stockbrokers. If their advice was so great, why aren't they themselves rich? He told the Los Angeles (CA) Times in April 1991: "Wall…
"Wall Street never discounts the same thing twice" is a stock exchange adage cited since at least the early 1930s. For example, it could be expected that a company is going to announce…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikiquote: Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie (25 November 1835 - 11 August 1919) was a Scottish-American businessman, a major philanthropist, and the founder of the Carnegie…
Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince told the Financial Times in July 2007: “When the music stops, in terms of liquidity, things will be complicated. But as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Wikiquote: Earnest RutherfordErnest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM PC FRS (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a nuclear physicist from New Zealand. He…
Some retailers have low profit margins, but high volume. The old joke is told about a retailer who sold products below cost, losing a little money on each sale. "I make it up on volume,"…
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give" has often been credited to Winston Churchill (1874-1965), but The Churchill Centre has determined that the saying is…
The old Smith Barney ads featuring actor John Houseman (famous as the law professor in the film and tv series The Paper Chase) featured the famous line: "We make money the old-fashioned way.…
Banks often have their pens chained to tables. Many people have pointed out that we trust banks with our money, but banks don't trust us with their pens. "seriously.. .have you ever…
"We're doomed -- doomed, I tell you!" is a clichéd line that might be told about a financial panic by a financial Dr. Doom. Joseph Conrad's 1904 novel, Nostromo, contained the…
After the "Big Apple" was re-popularized in the 1970s, it was only a matter of time (1983) before a New York City bank took the "apple" name. Apple Bank's slogan is…
"We're not born just to pay bills and die" is a saying that has been printed on many images. The positive (jocular?) saying came first. "My saying is your born, work, pay bills,…
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life" is a very popular quotation on Twitter. The quotation has been credited to American author Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) since 2005, but…
"Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty" is a saying about money that has been printed on several images. Twitter Ifeanyi @IfysturdyWealth is what…
Henry Merritt Wriston (1899-1978) -- a former president of both Brown University and Lawrence University -- wrote in a 1959 book about the qualities that college trustees should have: "My…
American journalist and author H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) wrote in A Book of Burlesques (1916): "Wealth. Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one's wife's…
The ice cream machine at McDonald's (a popular fast food restaurant chain) seems to break down often. "The ice cream machine at EVERY McDonald's is ALWAYS broken" was posted on…