1600 – 1900 CE
The origins of modern markets, from the Dutch tulip mania to the Gilded Age.
"I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life."
Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Jay Gould
"Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket."
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you're not going to stay w..."
Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
— Daniel Drew
"Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows i..."
I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do…
— J.P. Morgan
"I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to ..."
I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon.
— Nathan Mayer Rothschild
"I never buy at the bottom and I always sell too soon."
I never speculate. I see a sure thing and I go for it.
"I never speculate. I see a sure thing and I go for it."
Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and trust.
"Money equals business which equals power, all of which come from character and t..."
"There is nothing so patient as money, and nothing so impatient as the man who wa..."
The man who is a bear on the future of the United States wil…
"The man who is a bear on the future of the United States will always go broke."
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other h…
"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."
Who wants to be a millionaire? I do not. I just want to live…
"Who wants to be a millionaire? I do not. I just want to live like one."
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