George Goodman

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

"In Freuds 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."

"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 strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear."

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

"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."

"Nothing works all the time and in all kinds of markets."

"All the funds simply cant get through the exit door at the same time."

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

"You can be in love with that piece of paper if you want to, but that piece of paper doesnt love you,..."

"Wall Street, as you already know, is part of Marshall McLuhans vision of the world in the Electric Age, that is, a global village dependent on oral-aural communication."

"This is the way things are, and the Game has been so successful that, like everything, it will get more and more successful until it stops being successful."