Mark de Jonge Quotes

I am not the type of person who can leave my game at the ballpark and feel comfortable that my future is set regardless of my performance.

I don't think we'll ever be millionaires. I don't really think about the future.

I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

You grow your way to prosperity; you don't cut your way to it.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot of money because they had stock or stock options. Their kids were able to go to college, and it changed a lot of people's lives.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

We feel that fundamentally Wall Street is sound, and that for people who can afford to pay for them outright, good stocks are cheap at these prices

There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.

I am not in Wall Street for my health.

The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

I decided that the stock market was not an option for IKEA. I knew that only a long-term perspective could secure our growth plans, and I didn't want IKEA to become dependent on financial institutions.

Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long?

The future is inherently uncertain.

We don't talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.

If you think 20 years out and ask what's the most important company on the planet, it is not any company you could write down today. The most important company 20 years from now has not even been founded yet and doesn't have a name.

I think in the long term, you make money with focusing on the sport.

I can't look into the crystal ball. All I can do is the here and now.

At every Olympic Games, anything can happen that nobody can predict, so I did my best to win.

I don't know what the hell the future brings. If I did, I would play the lotto and win the mega millions and buy toy cars, real muscle cars, sneakers, and art.