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The world is not the way they tell you it is.
The Money Game (1968)
Nothing works all the time and in all kinds of markets.
The Money Game (1968)
All the funds simply can't get through the exit door at the same time.
The Money Game (1968)
The strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear.
The Money Game (1968)
In fact, a crowd of men acts like a single woman.
The Money Game (1968)
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 Money Game (1968)
Most accountants are honorable men, trying to do a job. But they are hired by corporations, not by investors.
The Money Game (1968)
" what moves is what is already moving. Sort of Newtonian."
The Money Game (1968)
You can be in love with that piece of paper if you want to, but that piece of paper doesn't love you,...
The Money Game (1968)
Prices have no memory, and yesterday has nothing to do with tomorrow.
The Money Game (1968)
The reason everybody signed up for a computer was that everybody else was signing up for a computer.
The Money Game (1968)
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 Money Game (1968)
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.
The Money Game (1968)
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 Money Game (1968)
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.
The Money Game (1968)
You have to go for the quantum jumps.
The Money Game (1968)
Somebody has to be on the other side.
The Money Game (1968)
Godliness is in league with riches.
The Money Game (1968)
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.
The Money Game (1968)
When there is no game, don't play,...
The Money Game (1968)