Bubbles Quotes

“Quickly, Holly," said Artemis urgently. "Follow those bubbles."

Holly opened the throttle. "Now there's an order I never thought I'd hear from you.”
― Eoin Colfer, The Atlantis Complex

“Put the coffee on, bubbles, I'm coming home”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork

“Our goal is more modest: We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
― Warren Buffett

“the fed can print credit as long as someone will borrow it into existence... the fed cannot print product (or production)”
― Anonymous

“Markets are not efficient enough; that’s why we have market peaks and bottoms now and then.”
― Naved Abdali

“When people hear others’ stories about becoming overnight millionaires, they act upon it and invest their life savings, their houses, and their retirement funds.”
― Naved Abdali

“In a bubble, people demonstrate some sort of cult-like behavior. They defend their positions, not by economic logic, but by force. They do this by calling those who
disagree with them dirty, and mocking people who give them prudent advice.”
― Naved Abdali

“Excess liquidity is the leading source of all bubbles.”
― Naved Abdali

“When enough people believe that prices will keep rising forever, a bubble starts.”
― Naved Abdali

“In a bubble, people are ready to pay any price without any regard to intrinsic value or any value whatsoever because they believe they can always sell it for a profit.”
― Naved Abdali

“Bubbles feel like a party.”
― Naved Abdali

“Fear-of-missing-out is more powerful than fear of losing.”
― Naved Abdali

“The combination of our natural desire to be better than our peers, our faulty assumption of dodging risk, and our flawed belief of having better chances than others, pushes us into excessive greed territory. We take more significant and sometimes fatal risks.”
― Naved Abdali

“I'm wearing my modesty froth.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“Reality is one, bubbles are many.”
― Wald Wassermann

“It is always better to avoid hyped stocks and desire to double your money in no time.”
― Naved Abdali

“When an economy or market is flushed with excess liquidity, people start to invest in unrealistic possibilities.”
― Naved Abdali

“If the buyers believe that they can sell assets to other buyers at a higher price, then the purchase price becomes irrelevant.”
― Naved Abdali

“In a rising price environment, people tend to throw analysis of risks out of the window. In their mind, the only possible risk is not to join the party.”
― Naved Abdali

“in a rising price environment, party culture and a gambling mindset take over. People think it is easy to make money, and it is fun. The stock market is a big giant casino
where the odds are in favor of gamblers. The more you play, the more you win. However, the facts are precisely the opposite.”
― Naved Abdali

“In a rapidly rising market, the stretch of prices between two points of time is amplified, then so is the general public’s behavior towards prices.”
― Naved Abdali

“Analyzing prices is not wrong. However, picking inflated prices as your only source of information is terrible.”
― Naved Abdali

“Fear of missing out single-handedly caused every single investment bubble inhuman history. No other emotion is more powerful than FOMO.”
― Naved Abdali

“A valuation, which is established as the outcome of the mass psychology of a large number of ignorant individuals is liable to change violently as the result of a sudden fluctuation of opinion due to factors which really do not make much difference . . . since there will be no strong roots of conviction to hold it steady.”
― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory Of Employment [ By: John Maynard Keynes ]

“This is why true insight is so inconvenient - it destroys all your bubbles.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“I'm aware, we're all aware, what goes on outside the bubble.
We're not stupid. We just thought people outside the bubble wanted the same thing:
To live as variously as possible.
Or, put another way: I am the least difficult of men.
All I want is boundless love.

It took us sixty years or so to understand
What the word "boundless" meant.
Now we know. And we'll never forget.”
― Vincent Katz

“These women live the secure, safe bubble, the nine-to-five, decent bubble. But who wants sleepy bubbles when you can have the excitant of the power, the stimulus of control, even of the cruelty. All that gradual, cunning, imperceptible advancement. Don't you just love," they said, "the sudden erotic alarm?”
― Anna Burns, Milkman

“Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Short History of Financial Euphoria By Galbraith John Kenneth

“Periods of speculative frenzy always draw both scoundrels and suckers to Wall Street, the way a three-alarm fire attracts onlookers and pickpockets.”
― Robert Sobel, The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market

“As protection against financial illusion or insanity, memory is far better than laws...For protecting people from the cupidity of others and their own, history is highly utilitarian. It sustains memory, and memory serves the same purpose as the SEC, and on the record is far more effective”
― John Kenneth Galbraith