What they said...
- A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990s - Satoshi Nakamoto
- A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price - Peter Lynch
- A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer - Bruce Lee
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest - Benjamin Franklin
- As you know i was a sceptic. I was a proud skeptic, and I studied it, learned about it, and I came away saying, okay, you know, my opinion [for] five years was wrong - Fink (2024) about his previous skepticism.
- Be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy - Warren Buffett (often repeated in various forms, exact origin date unknown)
- Bitcoin is “probably rat poison squared" - Warren Buffet (2018)
- Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something that is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value - Eric Schmidt (circa 2014)
- Bitcoin is a technological tour de force - Bill Gates (2013)
- Bitcoin is digital gold — growing harder, smarter, faster, & stronger due to the relentless progression of technology - Michael Saylor
- Bitcoin is no different than what gold represented for thousands of years. It is an asset class that protects you - Larry Fink (2024)
- Bitcoin is not an instrument for hope unless you're hopeful you're gonna make a lot of money on it - Larry Fink (2024) on Bitcoin
- Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world - Larry Fink (2017)
- Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money - Paul Buchheit
- Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry - Richard Branson
- Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I don't like it because it's another currency competing against the dollar - Donald Trump (2019)
- Bitcoins have no dividend or potential future dividend, therefore not like a stock. More like a collectible or commodity - Satoshi Nakamoto
- Blockchain and bitcoin point to a future, and point to a world, where content exists forever, where it's permanent, where it doesn't go away - Jack Dorsey (2018)
- Blockchain is a technology that can bring financial inclusion to the billions of unbanked around the world - Don Tapscott (circa 2016)
- Blockchain is changing the way we transact, and that's going to change the world - Richard Branson (circa 2017)
- Blockchain is the tech. Bitcoin is merely the first mainstream manifestation of its potential - Marc Kenigsberg (circa 2014)
- Blockchain is to trust as the Internet is to information - Muneeb Ali (circa 2017)
- Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself - Abigail Johnson
- Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself - Abigail Johnson (2016)
- Blockchain's decentralized network better supports the movement of digital goods and thus value on the internet - Naval Ravikant (circa 2017)
- Buy cheap and sell dear - Ben Graham
- Central banking is part of the problem - Satoshi Nakamoto
- Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it - Albert Einstein (often attributed, but authenticity and date are uncertain)
- Cryptocurrency is freedom's best chance - Tony Robbins (2022)
- Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments - Charles Lee (circa 2013)
- Cryptocurrency is the future of money - Richard Branson (circa 2017)
- Cryptocurrency is very much here to stay - Alexis Ohanian (2018)
- DAOs are the new way of organizing human collaboration - Aaron Wright (circa 2021)
- Decentralization is the future of everything - Naval Ravikant (circa 2017)
- DeFi is more than just finance. It's a new way of organizing human behavior - Hayden Adams (circa 2020)
- DeFi is the future of finance - Olaf Carlson-Wee (circa 2020)
- Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving - Warren Buffett
- Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack! - John Bogle (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket - traditional.
- Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself - John Dewey
- Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela
- Ethereum is a game-changer - Richard Branson (circa 2017)
- Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd - Ben Graham
- Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections or trying to anticipate corrections than has been lost in corrections themselves - Peter Lynch
- Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time - Jeff Bezos
- How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case - Robert G. Allen
- I am not a fan of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies, which are not money, and whose value is highly volatile and based on thin air - Donald Trump (2019)
- I believe Bitcoin is legitimate. I'm not saying there aren't misuses like everything else, but it is a legitimate financial instrument that allows you to have maybe uncorrelated, non-correlated type of returns - Larry Fink (2024)
- I believe that cryptocurrency is an inevitability - Jack Dorsey (2018)
- I look at it as a vehicle in which you're expressing your financial acumen, in something that you're more frightened of your existence. And I believe there's a great industrial use for it. And I think a lot of people are missing that - Larry Fink (2024) on Bitcoin
- I see Bitcoin as ultimately becoming a reserve currency for banks, playing much the same role as gold did in the early days of banking - Hal Finney
- I think bitcoin is on the verge of getting broad acceptance by conventional finance people - Elon Musk
- I think crypto has got a great future - Donald Trump (2024)
- I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out - Jeff Bezos (2008)
- I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government - Milton Friedman (1999)
- I think the fact that within the Bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government ...is actually pretty cool - Al Gore (2013)
- I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government - Milton Friedman (1999)
- I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- I’m sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume - Satoshi Nakamoto
- I'm very bullish on the long-term viability of Bitcoin - Larry Fink (2024)
- IBIT is the fastest growing ETF in the history of ETFs - Larry Fink (2024) commenting on their Bitcoin ETF
- If crypto is going to define the future, I want it to be mined, minted and made in the USA - Donald Trump (2024)
- If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry - Satoshi Nakamoto
- If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks - John Bogle
- If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline - Richard Branson
- In investing, don't do something, just stand there - John C. Bogle
- In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable - Robert Arnott (exact date unknown, likely 1990s or 2000s)
- In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts - Jeff Bezos (2009)
- In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine - Benjamin Graham
- In the world of Internet Customer Service, it's important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away - Doug Warner (late 1990s)
- Individuals who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process - Ben Graham
- Invest for the long haul. Don't get too greedy and don't get too scared - Shelby M.C. Davis
- Invest in what you know - Peter Lynch
- Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology - Seth Klarman
- Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas - Paul Samuelson (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- It is an instrument [you invest in] when you believe that countries are debasing their currency by excess deficits - Larry Fink (2024) on Bitcoin
- It's gold for nerds - Stephen Colbert on Bitcoin
- It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen - Scott Belsky (from his book "Making Ideas Happen," 2010)
- It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, and how many generations you keep it for - Robert Kiyosaki
- It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong - George Soros (from his book "The Alchemy of Finance," 1987)
- Just because you’ve been successful doesn’t mean you can’t be wrong. Warren Buffet
- Know what you own, and understand what you're buying - Peter Lynch
- Knowledge itself is power - Francis Bacon
- Learning is the fire that lights the path to wisdom - Unknown
- Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it - Warren Buffet
- Lost coins only make everyone else's coins worth slightly more. Think of it as a donation to everyone - Satoshi Nakamoto
- Mobile was Internet 2.0. It changed everything. Crypto is Internet 3.0 - Gil Penchina
- NFTs are bringing authenticity and scarcity to the digital realm - Gary Vaynerchuk (2021)
- NFTs are going to be a bigger revolution than bitcoin - Gary Vaynerchuk (2021)
- NFTs are the building blocks of the metaverse - Mark Zuckerberg (2021)
- NFTs are the future of ownership on the Internet - Gary Vaynerchuk (2021)
- NFTs have opened up the world of digital collectibles and digital scarcity - Mark Cuban (2021)
- Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble - Warren Buffett
- Our favorite holding period is forever - Warren Buffet
- Price is what you pay. Value is what you get - Warren Buffett
- Price is what you pay. Value is what you get - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
- Remember that the stock market is a manic depressive - Warren Buffet
- Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- Smart contracts are going to reshape the way we interact and transact - Nick Szabo (concept introduced in 1994, quote likely from early 2000s)
- Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it - Ben Bernanke
- The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you - B.B. King
- The best chance to deploy capital is when things are going down - Warren Buffet
- The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade - Benjamin Franklin (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The best investment strategy can turn into the worst if you don't have the stomach to see it through - Unknown
- The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks - Jeff Hammerbacher (2011)
- The best thing money can buy is financial freedom - Rob Berger (from "Retire Before Mom and Dad," 2019)
- The best time to invest was yesterday. The next best time is now - Unknown (often repeated investment advice)
- The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now - Chinese Proverb (origin date unknown)
- The best way to measure your investing success is not by beating the market but by meeting your financial goals - Adaptation from Benjamin Graham
- The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go - Benjamin Graham
- The best way to predict the future is to create it - Peter Drucker (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting - Charlie Munger
- The biggest opportunity set we can think of over the next decade is Web3 and crypto - Marc Andreessen (2021)
- The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks - Mark Zuckerberg (2011)
- The biggest risk of all is not taking one - Mellody Hobson (exact date unknown, likely 2000s or 2010s)
- The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value - Don & Alex Tapscott
- The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value - Don & Alex Tapscott (from "Blockchain Revolution," 2016)
- The blockchain is the financial challenge of our time. It is going to change the way that our financial world operates - Blythe Masters (2015)
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead - Aristotle
- The first rule of investment is don't lose. And the second rule of investment is don't forget the first rule - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.' - Sir John Templeton (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically - Martin Luther King Jr.
- The goal isn't to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today - Simon Sinek (from "Start with Why," 2009)
- The goal of a startup is to find the sweet spot where minimum product and viable product intersect - Chris Dixon (circa 2009)
- The greatest investment a young man can make is in his education - Jim Rohn
- The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator - Ben Graham
- The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists - Ben Graham
- The intelligent investor realizes that stocks become more risky, not less, as their prices rise—and less risky, not more, as their prices fall - Ben Graham
- The internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow - Bill Gates (from "Business @ the Speed of Thought," 1999)
- The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand - Eric Schmidt (2009)
- The Internet is the great equalizer - Anita Roddick (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The Internet of Money should be built on Internet infrastructure - Vitalik Buterin (circa 2015)
- The Internet will transform business and government. It is creating unprecedented opportunities for both individuals and organizations - Bill Gates (1999)
- The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read - Mark Twain
- The man who has ceased to learn ought not be allowed to wander abroad in public - George Bernard Shaw
- The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some higher price, nonexistent at some still higher price - Ben Graham
- The market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing - Adapted from Oscar Wilde
- The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark - Thomas Paine
- The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go - Dr. Seuss
- The more you learn, the more you earn. Warren Buffet
- The more you learn, the more you realize you don't know - Aristotle
- The most important investment you can make is in yourself - Warren Buffett (often repeated in various speeches and interviews, exact origin date unknown)
- The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect - Warren Buffett
- The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Warren Buffet
- The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built on blockchain - Naval Ravikant (circa 2017)
- The only investors who shouldn't diversify are those who are right 100% of the time - Sir John Templeton
- The only thing better than a duopoly is a monopoly - Peter Thiel
- The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing - Socrates
- The only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The only way to get rich is to make your money work for you - Unknown
- The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money - Warren Buffet
- The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that’s required to make it work - Satoshi Nakamoto
- The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less - Joel Greenblatt (from his book "The Little Book That Beats the Market," 2005)
- The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth - Robert Kiyosaki (from "Rich Dad Poor Dad," 1997)
- The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient - Warren Buffett (often attributed, exact date unknown)
- The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing - Philip Fisher (from his book "Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits," 1958)
- The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary - Nassim Taleb
- The Time is 03/Jan/2009, Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks - Satoshi Nakamoto. (This message, embedded in Bitcoin's genesis block, highlights the motivation behind Bitcoin's creation during a financial crisis.)
- The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets - Attributed to Baron Rothschild
- This afternoon, I'll present my plan to make the United States the global center for cryptocurrency.
- Time in the market is better than timing the market - An old investment chestnut that rings true.
- Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value. Warren Buffet
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do - Mark Twain (often attributed, but authenticity and date are uncertain)
- Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night - Seth Klarman
- Unlike gold where we manufacture new gold, we're almost at the ceiling of the amount of Bitcoin that can be created - Larry Fink (2024)
- We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software - Tim O'Reilly (2009)
- Web3 is about creating an Internet that works for and is owned by users and builders rather than VCs and big tech companies - Chris Dixon (circa 2021)
- Web3 is about ownership. Crypto is about money. NFTs are about culture - Gmoney (2021)
- Web3 is about putting power back into the hands of creators and users - Alexis Ohanian (2021)
- Web3 is about putting the power of the internet back into the hands of the people who use it - Gavin Wood (circa 2021)
- Web3 is about reading, writing, and owning - Paige Doherty (2021)
- Web3 is about sovereign ownership and control of your digital assets - Balaji Srinivasan (circa 2021)
- Web3 is an opportunity to start over with a new set of rules - Gavin Wood (circa 2021)
- Web3 is not just a technological shift, it's a paradigm shift in how we interact with the digital world - Balaji Srinivasan (circa 2021)
- Web3 is the internet owned by the builders and users, orchestrated with tokens - Packy McCormick (2021)
- Web3 is the internet we've always wanted. We just didn't know it yet - Fabian Vogelsteller (circa 2021)
- What can't kill Bitcoin makes it stronger - Mark Wittkowski
- What we call here a Black Swan is an event with the following three attributes: First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable - Nassim Taleb
- When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty - Olaf Carlson-Wee
- When I think about most of these cryptocurrencies. It just identifies how much money laundering there is in the world - Larry Fink (2017)
- When major declines occur, they offer extraordinary opportunities to those who are not handicapped by debt.
- When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients. Warren Buffet
- With a good perspective on history, we can have a better understanding of the present, and thus a clear vision of the future - Unknown
- You can't manage what you can't measure - Peter Drucker
- You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets - Peter Lynch
- You should be taking this technology as seriously as you should have been taking the development of the Internet in the early 1990's - Blythe Masters
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