Quotation of the Day

[Louetta]

"The Bills need a coach, not a carnival barker."

Thomas Perez, U.S Secretary of Labor

[Deaddog]

"You can only wear one pair of pants at a time."

CHARLES F. FEENEY, who gave away most of his billions, on the limits of material wealth.

Charles never had to work in 20 below weather.

[riverbabe]

"I define middle class to be under $20 million."

[Jerome Hesch to Bloomberg / Zachary Mider]

[billyjoe]

River, When my kids ask for $$, I say "sorry, that's going into my dynasty trust for your children's children's children". Then I educate them on how that $5 will grow into a fortune.

--------------billy

[Karel]

River, When my kids ask for $$, I say "sorry, that's going into my dynasty trust for your children's children's children". Then I educate them on how that $5 will grow into a fortune.

--------------billy

Cruel, Billy. But good to hear you are not middle class

[billyjoe]

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition" Timothy Leary

------------billy

[riverbabe]

‘Why Does the Stock Market Have Pre-Market and After-Hours Trading?’

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/18/insider/why-does-the-stock-market-have-pre-market-and-after-hours-trading.html

[Louetta]

"We don't sell annuities. I would die and go to hell before I sell annuities."

Ken Fisher in an ad on CNBC.

[billyjoe]

"First hour trading is flatout flimflam for fools" unknown, I guess this would mean that early trades usually are losers, but how can both buyers and sellers be losers? Wouldn't there be an equal amount of each?

--------------billy

[Louetta]

"The time for empty talk is over."

D.J.Trump, POTUS, in his first inaugural.

[riverbabe]

(Heck, for that matter, there could have been tanks at the inaugural parade — Trump wanted them! — but there were concerns they'd tear up the pavement on Pennsylvania Avenue.) [Huffington Post / Jessica Schulberg]

“It’s very Red Square,” said Stephen Kerrigan, who oversaw the past two inaugurations.

[Louetta]

"It was a little weird seeing all the people dressed as genitalia ... I hope there's never a men's march."

Joe Kernan on CNBC commenting on the NYC Women's March.

[Karel]

"It was a little weird seeing all the people dressed as genitalia ... I hope there's never a men's march."

Joe Kernan on CNBC commenting on the NYC Women's March.

Fascinating. Did he just arrive from the far side of the moon? And as I haven’t seen any in the pics: he didn’t mean the pussy hats, did he?

[riverbabe]

"Global capital doesn't have a social conscience. It will go where the returns are."

KEVIN SHARER, the former head of the biotech giant Amgen, on some of the market forces that may hinder President Trump's goal of bringing back domestic manufacturing jobs.

[riverbabe]

"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."

George Orwell, "1984"