Hump Day Invites Market Swing For Large Caps- $BA $DLTR $NFLX Jump!

Happy Hump Day!

I hope you all had a wonderful day and that the large cap swing of sorts that was realized widely in the markets helped you to increase the value of your accounts today. As it stands, Wednesday’s market results came in as follows: the S&P 500 closed at 4,359.46 (+.16%), the Dow 30 closed at 34,390.72 (+.26%), & the Nasdaq closed back at 14,512.44 (-.24%). Defensive oriented sectors were generally in favor as the utilities led with a 1.3% positive move, consumer staples moved up .9%, health care moved up .8%, & real estate increased .7%. 3 0f the 11 sectors closed lower as the materials & the communications equally fell .2%, & the information technology ticked lower by .1%.  

The macroeconomic schedule served the Pending home sales report, which confirmed a 8.1% M/M leap in August, while the weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index report confirmed a drop by 1.1%. The weekly crude oil inventories rose by 4.58M barrels oil prices slid to $74.91/bbl falling .5%. The 10-yr yield curve somewhat leveled out today as the 10-yr treasury yield closed at 1.54% moving up 1 basis point, while the 2-yr yield pulled back 1 basis point to .29%. The U.S. Dollar Index moved up .7% to 94.41. Also,  Janet Yellen continues to warn us all of ‘catastrophic’ events if the US does not solve its debt ceiling issue my the middle of October. 

The small caps on the Russell 2000 fell another -.2% closing at 2,225.31.  The MicroCaps also fell again as the iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) closed at $144.89, (-.71%).

The precious metals markets ended with gold prices closing at $1,727, -$9 and silver closed at $21.55, -$.93.

Tomorrow’s macroeconomic schedule will bring forth the weekly Initial and Continuing Claims report, the third estimate for Q2 GDP, & the Chicago PMI report for September.

BIOTECH SLIDES FURTHER – JOIN THE INMB TRIBE EVENT TOMORROW

The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) closed at $125.63, -1.65%, (over 5% in the last two days). the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) closed at $161.41, -.44% & the NYSE ARCA Biotech Index (^BTK) closed at 5,651.59, -.65%.

I will be hosting a FREE Tribe Public Presentation and Q&A event with INMB management tomorrow,  Thursday, September 30 at 8:30am PT/11:30am ET. INmune Bio’s (NASDAQ: INMB) CEO Dr. Raymond J. Tesi, MD and CFO David J. Moss will deliver their presentation titled “Improving White Matter Integrity In Alzheimer’s Disease” & and be available for a brief Q&A session. Please register at INMB93021.TribePublic.com. You may also send your questions for INMB management ahead of the event via email: research@tribepublic.com or during the event via the Zoom Chat Feature. 

TECH LOWER- $NFLX JUMPS

A few tech giants closed as follows: Alphabet (GOOG) closed at 2,690.42, -1.22%, Facebook (FB) closed at $339.61, -.31%, Amazon (AMZN) closed at $3,301.12, -.45%, Microsoft (MSFT) closed at $284, +.17%, Apple (AAPL, $142.83, +.65%), Netflix (NFLX, $599.06, +2.61%), Salesforce (CRM, $272.28, -2.65%) & Tesla (TSLA, $777.56, -1.74%). 

This week, Netflix was reported to have made its first acquisition in the gaming space where they bought Night School, most famous for developing the popular game “Oxenfree.” Night School Studio was founded in 2014 by Sean Krankel and Adam Hines. Netflix will post its third-quarter 2021 financial results and business outlook on its investor relations website at http://ir.netflix.net on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, at approximately 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. On September 22, Netflix announced ed the acquisition of The Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC. The acquisition is believed to be building on the partnership they started three years ago to create a slate of animated TV series. For example, Academy Award winning filmmaker Taika Waititi and Academy Award nominee Phil Johnston are now reported to be hard at work on a series based on the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In addition, they are working with Sony and Working Title on an adaptation of Matilda The Musical. It is interesting that Roald Dahl’s books have been translated into 63 languages and sold more than 300 million copies worldwide, with characters like Matilda, The BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Willy Wonka and The Twits delighting generations of children and adults. 

BA JUMPS

Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced today that it will continue assuring the C-17 Globemaster III’s worldwide mission readiness through a follow-on contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense, valued at up to $23.8 billion including potential options and incentives over ten years. The program is currently funded through September 2024 with a Phase I award of $3.5 billion. Shares of Boeing closed at $225.36, +3.18%. 

DLTR POPS

Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) today reported that its Board of Directors has increased the Company’s share repurchase authorization by $1.05 billion to an aggregate amount of $2.5 billion, including approximately $1.45 billion available for repurchases under the Board’s previous repurchase authorization approved on March 2, 2021. “Delivering value to our customers and shareholders is our top priority. We are committed to a disciplined capital allocation strategy that balances returning capital to our shareholders and investing in our business for growth,” stated Michael Witynski, President and Chief Executive Officer. “In fiscal 2021, we have repurchased $950 million of shares. Over the past several years, we have paid down more than $4 billion in debt and returned to an investment grade rating. As a result, with the meaningful free cash flow from our business, we expect to maintain share repurchasing as an important part of our capital allocation strategy.” Shares of DLTR closed at $100.51, +16.49%. Dollar Tree is also now going to be selling certain items for $1.25 – $1.50 hiking its prices to ‘deal’ with  freight and wage increases. Maybe they will need to change their name to the “$2 tree” soon. 

DISNEY

Shares of The Walt Disney Company (DIS) closed at $172.68, -1.05%.  On Friday, Disney World will turn the big “Five-O”. 

MEMES WATCH

AMC Entertainment (AMC) closed at $35.54, -3.92%.

GameStop (GME) closed at $175.92, -1.5%. On Sept. 20, GameStop announced that the Company plans to hire up to 500 employees at its newly-leased customer service center in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The new facility is expected to be operational by the end of 2021. 

Virgin Galactic Holdings (SPCE) closed at $22.56, -3.55%. After the markets closed today Virgin Galactic, a vertically integrated aerospace and space travel company, announced that it is cleared to fly FAA-licensed spaceflights following the conclusion of an FAA inquiry that focused on air traffic control clearance and real-time mission notification related to the Unity 22 flight in July. Michael Colglazier, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Galactic, said: “Our entire approach to spaceflight is guided by a fundamental commitment to safety at every level, including our spaceflight system and our test flight program. We appreciate the FAA’s thorough review of this inquiry. Our test flight program is specifically designed to continually improve our processes and procedures. The updates to our airspace and real-time mission notification protocols will strengthen our preparations as we move closer to the commercial launch of our spaceflight experience.”

Shares of infamous ‘meme brokerage’ firm Robinhood Markets, Inc., (HOOD) closed at $43.13, -.3.34%, but still above the $38 IPO offering price.

Shares of Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (SHIP) closed at $1.42, -7.19%.

Share of 1847 Goedeker Inc. (GOED) closed at $3.15, -3.67%. GOED is one of the largest specialty ecommerce players in the U.S. household appliances market. On Sept. 21, GOED’s new Chief Executive Officer, Albert Fouerti, issued a letter stockholders. 

Economic Reports

• On Tuesday, the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index report confirmed a fall to 109.3 in September. The Advance report for International Trade in Goods for August confirmed a deficit of $87.6B, while the Advance report for Retail Inventories report for August showed a rise by .1%, & the Advance report for Wholesale Inventories report for August rose 1.2%. The July FHFA Housing Price Index report showed a rise by 1.4% M/M. The July S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index report confirmed a 19.9% jump Y/Y.
• On Wednesday, the Pending home sales report confirmed a 8.1% M/M leap in August, while the weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index report confirmed a drop by 1.1%. The weekly crude oil inventories rose by 4.58M barrels.

Investing & Inspiration

1. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo
2. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
3. “I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4. “Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Elizabeth Bibesco
5. “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” – Ben Hogan
6. “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl
7. “Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments – like bonds, stocks and savings accounts – so they can spend more later.” – Adam Davidson
8. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett
9. “In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.” – Marvin Ammori
10. “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” – Satchel Paige
11. “One of the rules I’ve learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman
12. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
13. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard
14. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”– Sholom Aleichem
15. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
16. “Man is only great when he acts from passion.” – Benjamin Disraeli
17. “We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.” – Roger McNamee
18. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
19. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
20. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
21. “Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.” – Peter Diamandis
22. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
23. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
24. “When you’re an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there’s a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.” – Kevin O’Leary
25. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar N. Bradley
26. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
27. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey 
28. “Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock
29. “If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.” – Bear Bryant
30. “Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.” – Peter Diamandis
31. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer 
32. “Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.” – Sanjaya Baru
33. “If people are anything but enthusiastic about the information or ideas that they’re sharing, they’re either not that invested in what they’re doing – or they’re not communicating that investment effectively.” – Ana Kasparian 
34. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” – Josh Billings 
35. “Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.” – Joel Osteen
36. “It’s only natural that the heavy users help contribute to the investment to keep the Web healthy. That is the most important concept of net neutrality.” – Lowell McAdam
37. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul 

38. “Eliminate emotion from your investment program.” -John C. Bogle

39. “Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.” – Ike Skelton
40. “In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.” – Zaza Pachulia
41. “An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can’t easily recognize that they are the same.” – Daniel Kahneman
42. “The return on investment in global health is tremendous, and the biggest bang for the buck comes from vaccines. Vaccines are among the most successful and cost-effective health investments in history.” – Seth Berkley
43. “Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘you can do it’ when things are tough.” – Richard M. DeVos
44. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
45. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”  – Jesse Owens
46. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward- American Writer, Born 1921
47. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
48. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
49.  “If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle
50. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”. -Thomas A. Edison
51. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey

52. “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” – Plato

53. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” – Swami Vivekananda
54. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

55. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

56. “Don’t worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.” – Ice Cube

57. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

58. “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” – Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist)

59. “It is indeed true that the stock market can forecast the business cycle.” -Paul Samuelson

60. “The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.” – Jonathan Sacks

61. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
62. “Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.” – Thomas Sowell
63. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
64. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem

65. “View health as an investment, not an expense.” – John Quelch

66. “Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.” – Kyle Chandler

67. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
68. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
69. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
70. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie
71. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”–  Duke Ellington
72. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
73. “I’m involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.” – Regis Philbin
74. “Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.” – John Landgraf
75. “One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.” – William Feather
76. “While I’m sure some millennials are concerned with the ethical issues involved in mining for diamonds, the main reason they steer clear of the gems is because, well, they’re a dumb investment.” – Ana Kasparian
77. “The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don’t, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.” – Jonathan Sack
78. “We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make.” –  Deb Haaland
79. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson
80. “If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.” – Bear Bryant

81. “Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.” -Liya Kebede

82. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”– Winston Churchill

83. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

84. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
85. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
86. “If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.” – Elon Musk
87. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
88. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
89. “Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – whatever platforms emerge – we are looking at as having the same potential that home video had for the movie business. Which means there are entirely new opportunities to monetize our capital investment in content and do so in ways that work for distributors, for consumers and for creators.” – Bob Iger

90. “When you have no one to answer to, vendetta as investment strategy is as legitimate as anything.” – Carl Icahn

91. “No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.” – Brad Henry
92. “In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?” – Li Lu

93. “Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives.

94. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.”– Ike Skelton

95. “Stock market goes up or down, and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment.” – John Paulson

96. “Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.” – Peter Diamandis
97. “Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.” – Kevin Brady
98. “Bitcoin, in the short or even long term, may turn out be a good investment in the same way that anything that is rare can be considered valuable. Like baseball cards. Or a Picasso.” – Andrew Ross Sorkin
99. “I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock and there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.” – Peter Lynch
100. “Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years.” – Jim Rogers
101. “The markets generally are unpredictable, so that one has to have different scenarios. The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.” – George Soros
102. “Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or the elections.” – Warren Buffett
103. “An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.” – Peter Lynch
104. “Learn everyday, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper!” – John Bogle
105. “When purchasing depressed stock in troubled companies, seek out the ones with the superior financial positions and avoid the ones with loads of bank debt.” – Peter Lynch
106. “No stock price is too low for bears or too high for bulls.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr.

107. “Investment is most successful when it is most businesslike.” – Ben Graham

108. “Value stocks are about as exciting as watching grass grow, but have you ever noticed just how much your grass grows in a week?” – Christopher Browne

109. “Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.” – Benjamin Graham
110. “Individual who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.” – Benjamin Graham
111. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life until then.” – Warren Buffet
112. “I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett
113. “There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization’s overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow. It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.” – Jack Welch, former CEO of GE
114. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” ― Warren Buffett
115. “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” – Warren Buffet
116. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” — Robert G. Allen
117. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
118. “A market downturn doesn’t bother us. It is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices.” — Warren Buffett
119. “Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.” — Jim Cramer
120. “The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition.” — John D. Rockefeller
121. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
122. “Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part ownership of a business.” – Peter Lynch
123. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” – Rhonda Katz

124. “Invest for the long haul. Don’t get too greedy and don’t get too scared.” – Shelby M.C. Davis

125. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.”
     -Jeremy Siegel
126. “With a good perspective on history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.” — Carlos Slim Helu
127. “If we like a business, we’re going to buy as much of it as we can and keep it as long as we can. And when we change our mind, we don’t take half measures.” – Warren Buffett

128. “The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd but to think for yourself.” — Peter Thiel

129. “Never depend on a single income, make an investment to create a second source.” Warren Buffet

130. “Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”
     ― Warren Buffett
131. “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” – Peter Lynch
132. “Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets … any sound investment will eventually pay off.” — Carlos Slim Helu
133. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
134. “As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.” — John Maynard Keynes
135. “Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time.” — Jeff Bezos
136. “Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
137. “The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less.” – Joel Greenblatt
138. “We don’t have an analytical advantage, we just look in the right place.” – Seth Klarman
139. “Men, it has been well said, think in herds. It will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” – Charles Mackay
140. “It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.” – George Soros
141. “No Price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.” — Anonymous
142. “Investment is an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future.” Anonymous
143. “Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.” — Peter Lynch
144. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” –Rhonda Katz
145. “It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.” ― Robert Shiller
146. “A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.” — Barton Biggs
147. “The investor’s chief problem — even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.” — Benjamin Graham
148. “No profession requires more hard work, intelligence, patience, and mental discipline than successful speculation.” – Robert Rhea
149. “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
150. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” — Albert Einstein
151. “Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results” — Warren Buffett
152. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” – Warren Buffett
153. “Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed’s policy on money supply…and they can’t predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.” – Peter Lynch
154. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
155. “You cannot save time for your future use however you can invest time for your future.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr. 
156. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
157. “Liquidity is only there when you don’t need it.” -Old Proverb
158. “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” – Richard Branson
159. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.” – Jeremy Siegel
160. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” – Robert Arnott
161. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” – Charlie Munger
162. “The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.” – Edward Lampert
163. “The rivers don’t drink their own water; Trees don’t eat their own fruits. The sun does not shine for itself, And flowers do not spread their fragrance For themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature” – Pope Francis
164. “It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton
165. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin.
166. “I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!” -Bill Gates
167. “Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won’t grow any faster than the rate of inflation.” – Suze Orman
168. “The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility, and flow of risk capital… the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.” – John F. Kennedy
169. “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. -George Bernard Shaw
170. “There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”-Ed Seykota
171. “Let this scenario play out on its own, in its own fashion. As you watch it unfold, you will soon be grateful that you choose the peaceful path. Remember — those who live by the sword, die by the sword.”
172. “As long as you enjoy investing, you’ll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game.” -Jim Cramer
173. “I rarely think the market is right. I believe non-dividend stocks aren’t much more than baseball cards. They are worth what you can convince someone to pay for it.” -Mark Cuban
174. “Michael Marcus taught me one other thing that is absolutely critical: You have to be willing to make mistakes regularly; there is nothing wrong with it. Michael taught me about making your best judgment, being wrong, making your next best judgment, being wrong, making your third best judgment, and then doubling your money.” -Bruce Kovner
175. “The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
176. “The only true test of whether a stock is “cheap” or “high” is not its current price in relation to some former price, no matter how accustomed we may have become to that former price, but whether the company’s fundamentals are significantly more or less favorable than the current financial-community appraisal of that stock.” -Philip Fisher
177. “I learned to avoid trying to catch up or double up to recoup losses. I also learned that a certain amount of loss will affect your judgment, so you have to put some time between that loss and the next trade.” -Richard Dennis
178. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.” -Sir John Templeton
179. “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger