John Waters Quotes

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much.

If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.

Let's be honest: the trappings of investment banking are quite tempting. I do miss it sometimes. And to be honest, there was a time I'd read the 'WSJ' in the morning, and for years I have done that.

Obviously, no one knows when the market is going to bottom out, and I am certainly not an economist.

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

I never understand why 'economist makes forecast' is ever a headline. Whether the economist in question is from the International Monetary Fund, a City forecasting group or the Treasury - a forecast is still not news.

I'm not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

Predicting the market is always tough.

To this day, I'm a slave to CNBC.

Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

Editorial cartoons are about concept. The illustration is merely a vehicle to convey a point of view. We're here to protect and inform the public, to attack and repel those who do not agree with our long-term shared interest.

Economic forecasting has actually got pretty good over the years, though admittedly, we don't always get it right.

I'm not interested in showing a politician falling over; it's about the issue and making people think differently about that.

Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas.

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.

Whoever ventures to attack a system received so generally, and supported by so great a weight of authority, is exposed to various evils. They who have embraced its principles are apt to slight and neglect, or, if that may not he, to conceive it their business to overthrow the heterodox doctrines. What of error they may contain is eagerly seized on, what of truth, is overlooked.

You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.

Every good businessman or woman carefully analyzes all the available facts before making a decision.

It's important for market participants to have a sense of how we think about the economy and the appropriate path of policy, to look at incoming data, and to form their own judgments as to whether or not changes in policy would be appropriate.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.

I learnt early that always being analytical is important for a business. Being analytical as an attitude is more important than just having the aptitude.