Hump Day’s Seesaw Session Falls Into the Close – $BOX $F $ROIV Rise!

Wednesday’s markets started off well enough seeing the S&P hit a session high up 1.9% at about 11am ET, but things turned terribly ugly as the day proceeded. Fears of the spread of COVID the Omicron variant, confusion around vaccines efficacy and/or lack of vaccinated folks, slower growth, the Fed’s tapering of asset purchases, and tax loss selling added up for a perfect storm of sorts to cause a market sell off. As a result, 10 of the 11 sectors closed in the red with only the utilities sector ending in positive territory ticking up .2% that pressured all indices to close down today. The S&P 500 closed at 4,513.04 (-1.18%), the Dow 30 closed at 34,022.04 (-1.34%), & the Nasdaq closed at 15,254.05 (-1.83%). The drop was even worse the further you looked down the markets. The small caps on the Russell 2000 continued to move lower closing at 2,147.42 (-2.34%) & essentially in lockstep once again the MicroCaps dropped with iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) ending the day at $136.28, (-2.54%). Bids in the micro space were certainly hard to come by and several issues dropped precipitously. 

Interestingly, the yield curve diverged today as the 2-yr yield moving up  4 basis points to .56% & the 10-yr yield moved down 2 basis points to 1.43%, however, the U.S. Dollar Index moved up .5% to 96.08.

Oil prices closed lower again moving down .8% to close at $65.61/bb1. 

Gold prices closed at $1,783/oz , +$8, while silver prices closed at $22.39, -$.43. 

Bitcoin (BTC) closed at $57,070.73, -.51%.

Today’s macroeconomic schedule produced the November ISM Manufacturing Index report which ticked up to 61.1% confirming expansion. The Total construction spending report confirmed a rise by .2% M/M in October, while the total private construction report showed a drop by .2% M/M, & total public construction spending rose by 1.8%. The ADP Employment Change report estimated that 534k jobs were added to private-sector payrolls in November. The final IHS Market Manufacturing PMI report for November came down at 58.3. The weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index report showed a sharp 7.2% drop. Tomorrow’s schedule will bring forth the weekly Initial Claims report and the Continuing Claims report.

BIOTECH 

The SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) closed at $112.13, -3.56% after establishing a new 52-week low and intraday low of $112.02. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) closed at $150.74, -2.26%, & the NYSE ARCA Biotech Index (^BTK) closed at $5,258.34, -1.51%.

Today,  INmune Bio (NASDAQ: INMB) announced two poster presentations at the 2021 British Society of Immunology Congress, which was held November 28-December 1, in Edinburgh, UK. Mark Lowdell, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer of INmune Bio, stated, “I’m delighted to have two of our team presenting our latest data on the mechanism of action of INKmune. These are the first comprehensive data showing that INKmune-mediated priming generates NK cells with memory-like phenotype (mlNK). Before this, mlNK cells could only be produced using multiple combinations of cytokines. These are the data which led us to the concept that INKmune is a ‘pseudokine’ that provides multiple signals to NK cells, akin to the multi-cytokine cocktails used by others. We also show that INKmune priming promotes significant proliferation of mlNK cells in vitro. These in vitro data have been replicated in the first patient treated with three, weekly doses of INKmune for high risk MDS. At 119 days post first treatment, 60% of the patient’s NK cells showed the activated, tumor killing phenotype compared to fewer than 15% before INKmune therapy. The patient remains well and with a significantly improved ECOG status.”

Shares of Roivant Sciences Ltd. (Nasdaq: ROIV) closed at $8.89, +34.09% today after rising to $9.77 intraday trading on 6,940,368 shares of trading. Roivant states its mission is to improve the delivery of healthcare to patients by treating every inefficiency as an opportunity. Roivant states also that it develops transformative medicines faster by building technologies and developing talent in creative ways, leveraging the Roivant platform to launch “Vants” – nimble and focused biopharmaceutical and health technology companies. For more information, please visit www.roivant.com. No news surfaced today,  but on Nov. 15, Roivant reported its financial results for the second fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2021 and provided an update on the Company’s operations.Roivant’s Chief Executive Officer, Matt Gline, noted: “We are looking forward to this new phase of growth as we prepare to launch potential blockbuster tapinarof in psoriasis, with registrational studies in atopic dermatitis also underway. In addition to the studies underway at Dermavant, we expect at least four other programs will enter Phase 2 or Phase 3 trials in 2022, and we are excited to continue advancing our protein degrader programs towards the clinic, as well.”

CONSUMER – TECH – EV

Shares of salesforce.com, inc. (CRM) closed sharply lower at $251.50, -11.74%. On Nov. 30th, Salesforce announced results for its third quarter of fiscal 2022 ended October 31, 2021, which topped expectations however their guidance missed the mark, . Marc Benioff, Chair and CEO of Salesforce stated, “We delivered another phenomenal quarter, fueling strong revenue growth, margin and cash flow. Salesforce is more relevant and strategic than ever as every company accelerates their digital transformation journey. Just as we’ve helped our customers navigate the pandemic, we’re now guiding them toward greater growth, customer success, health and safety, and trust. With the tremendous strength of our Customer 360 platform and Slack, we’re on track to reach $50 billion revenue in FY26.”

Redwood City, CA-based Box, Inc. (NYSE:BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced preliminary financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022, which ended October 31, 2021 beating expectations. Shares of BOX closed at $25.81, +10.25%. Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box “Our strong third quarter results show the continued momentum of our long-term growth strategy, as more customers are turning to the Box Content Cloud to deliver secure content management and collaboration built for the new way of working. In addition to our solid financial and customer metrics, we made meaningful product announcements in the third quarter, including the rollout of Box Sign globally, new malware deep scan capability in Box Shield to combat ransomware, and deeper integrations with Microsoft Office and Teams, Salesforce, Slack and Zoom. The confluence of remote work, digital transformation and cybersecurity challenges is causing enterprises to rethink how they work with their content. We believe Box’s leadership in the Content Cloud market is driving the acceleration of our growth and the expansion of our customer footprint.”

EV giant Tesla (TSLA) moved higher to close at $1,095, -4.35%. Reportedly, Tesla CEO Elon Musk will be attending the company’s next earnings call.

Shares of Ford Motor Company (F) closed at $19.58, +2.03%. Ford executives will represent the company’s actions and aspirations in the electric vehicle revolution at two upcoming conferences. On Friday, Lisa Drake is scheduled to speak at the Goldman Sachs Global Automotive Conference. The presentation by Drake, Ford’s chief operating officer for North America, will begin at 8:50 a.m. ET and be followed by a question-and-answer session.  Also on Friday, Hau Thai-Tang, the company’s chief product platform and operations officer, will address the Credit Suisse Industrials Conference. Thai-Tang’s presentation will begin at 12:10 p.m. ET and also be followed by Q&A.  

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN, $3,443.72, -1.81%). Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company, announced two new initiatives designed to make machine learning more accessible for anyone interested in learning and experimenting with the technology. The AWS AI & ML Scholarship is a new education and scholarship program aimed at preparing underrepresented and underserved students globally for careers in machine learning. The program uses AWS DeepRacer and the new AWS DeepRacer Student League to teach students foundational machine learning concepts by giving them hands-on experience training machine learning models for autonomous race cars, while providing educational content centered on machine learning fundamentals. AWS is further increasing access to machine learning through Amazon SageMaker Studio Lab, which gives everyone access to a no-cost version of Amazon SageMaker—an AWS service that helps customers build, train, and deploy machine learning models.

Shares of Apple (AAPL) closed at $164.77, -.32%. On Nov. 30, Apple® announced the winners of the third annual Apple Music® Awards, recognizing the best artists of 2021 and their influence on global culture. The Apple Music Awards honor achievements in music across five distinct categories — Artist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Top Song of the Year, and Top Album of the Year — and winners are chosen through a process that reflects both Apple Music’s editorial perspective and what customers around the world are listening to the most. This year, the Apple Music Awards will introduce a new category of awards for Regional Artist of the Year, recognizing artists from five countries and regions: Africa, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia. The Regional Artist of the Year awards recognize artists who made the greatest impact culturally and on the charts in their respective countries and regions.

NVIDIA (NVDA) closed at $326.76, -2.10%. NVDA handily beat expectations recently clocking in with revenue at $7.1B vs. $6.81B expected, earnings per share was $1.17 vs. $1.11 expected, gaming revenue came in at $3.22 billion vs.$3.18B expected, & the Data Center revenue was at $2.94B vs. $2.69B that was expected. 319.56-10.29 (-3.12%). NVIDIA will present at the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference, Monday, Dec. 6, at 10 a.m. Pacific Time.

Shares of Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) closed at $330.08, -.15%. Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella sold nearly half of his holdings in the company for $285M and apparently it was for personal reasons. Maybe inflation was eating into his check account…

DISNEY

Another VP Watchlist company, Walt Disney (DIS), closed at $142.15, -1.90%. On Dec. 1, The Walt Disney Company Board of Directors announced that it has elected Susan E. Arnold as Chairman of the Board, effective December 31, 2021. Ms. Arnold, a 14-year member of the Disney Board who has served as its independent Lead Director since 2018, will succeed Robert A. Iger as Chairman of the Board when he departs the Company at the end of the year.

MCD 

Shares of McDonald’s (MCD) closed at $244.18, -.17%. The Editorial Advisory and Securities Review Committee of BetterInvesting Magazine announced this week that McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) as a  “Stock to Study”.

MEMES WATCH

AMC Entertainment (AMC) closed at $28.57, -15.82%.  On Nov. 28, AMC Theatres, the largest theatrical exhibitor in the United States, in Europe & the Middle East and in the world, announced that for the first time ever, members of its AMC Stubs Premiere, AMC Stubs A-List and AMC Investor Connect who advance purchase or reserve their opening-day ticket to Sony Pictures’ SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME will receive an exclusive Spider-Man™ NFT, while supplies last. There will be 86,000 NFTs available for this unprecedented Sony and AMC celebration of the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home. (The total production of these Sony/AMC NFTs is expected to be limited to an overall quantity of 90,000.)

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) announced recently that it expects to complete its $1 billion three-year share repurchase plan by the end of fiscal 2021 – two years ahead of schedule. Shares of BBBY closed at $17.11, -6.66%. On Nov. 18, Bed Bath & Beyondofficially announced the launch of H for Happy™, a new Owned Brand collection of holiday-inspired and seasonal celebratory goods that make it easy to turn everyday moments into life-long memories. Whether hanging stockings over the fireplace, setting a holiday table, lighting the menorah, or trimming a tree, H for Happy has everything needed to “home, happier™” this season and create celebratory moments all year long.

GameStop (GME) closed at $179.84, -8.34%. On Nov. 23, GameStop announced that it will report third quarter fiscal 2021 earnings results after the market closes on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The Company will host an investor conference call at 5:00 pm ET on the same day to review its results. This call and all supplemental information can be accessed on GameStop’s investor relations website: https://investor.gamestop.com. The phone number for the investor conference call is 877-451-6152 and the confirmation code is 13725350. A recording of the conference call will be made available on the Company’s investor relations website.

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (SHIP) closes at $.8802, -7.35%.

Economic Reports

• On Monday, the Pending Home Sales report for October confirmed a 7.5% rise.
• On Tuesday, the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index report confirmed a move lower to 109.5 in November. The Chicago PMI report also confirmed a fall to 61.8 in November. The FHFA Housing Price Index report showed a rise to .9% M/M in September. The S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index report confirmed a rise by 19.1% Y/Y in September.

Investing & Inspiration

1. “Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.” – Hans Selye
2. “Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused. It’s the drive. It’s the passion.” – Travis Scott
3. “Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein
4. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron
5. “View health as an investment, not an expense.” – John Quelch
6. “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” – John Lennon
7. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln
8. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”– Stephen Hawking
9. “Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.” – Elie Wiesel
10. “Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.” – Colin Powell
11. “Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.” – Desi Arnaz
12. “Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.” – Charles B. Rangel,
13. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein
14. “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
15. “This idea of mutual appreciation and partnerships and investment in our people is very important to me and will continue to be important.” – Dennis Muilenburg
16. “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
17. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
18. “Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
19. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
20. “Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
21. “The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.” – John Burroughs
22. “It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.” – Robert W. Service
23. “When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.” – Oscar Wilde
24. “A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.” – Daymond John
25. “In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It’s the same with investment.” – Masayoshi Son

26. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” -Albert Einstein

27. “The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

28. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.”– Eric Butterworth
29. “This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.” – William James
30. “People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” –  Isaac Asimov
31. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”  – Leo Tolstoy
32. “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” – Clint Eastwood
33. “In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.” – Miguel de Cervantes
34. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
35. “If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead
36. “The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.” – Whitney Tilson
37. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
38. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis

39. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin

40. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” – John Wooden

41. “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles Kettering

42. “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
43. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
44. “I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
45. “Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Elizabeth Bibesco
46. “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” – Ben Hogan
47. “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl
48. “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
49. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett
50. “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
51. “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” – Satchel Paige
52. “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
53. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
54. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard
55. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”– Sholom Aleichem
56. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
57. “Man is only great when he acts from passion.” – Benjamin Disraeli
58. “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
59. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
60. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
61. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
62. “Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.” – Peter Diamandis
63. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
64. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
65. “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
66. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar N. Bradley
67. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
68. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey 
69. “Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock
70. “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
71. “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
72. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer 
73. “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
74. “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 
75. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” – Josh Billings 
76. “Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.” – Joel Osteen
77. “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
78. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul 

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

80. “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
81. “In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.” – Zaza Pachulia
82. “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
83. “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
84. “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
85. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. “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
87. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward- American Writer, Born 1921
88. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
89. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
90.  “If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle
91. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”. -Thomas A. Edison
92. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey

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

94. “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
95. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

101. “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

102. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
103. “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
104. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
105. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem

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

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

108. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
109. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
110. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
111. “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
112. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”–  Duke Ellington
113. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
114. “I’m involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.” – Regis Philbin
115. “Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.” – John Landgraf
116. “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
117. “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
118. “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
119. “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
120. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson
121. “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

122. “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

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

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

125. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
126. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
127. “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
128. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
129. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
130. “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

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

132. “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
133. “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

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

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

136. “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

137. “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
138. “Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.” – Kevin Brady
139. “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
140. “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
141. “Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years.” – Jim Rogers
142. “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
143. “Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or the elections.” – Warren Buffett
144. “An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.” – Peter Lynch
145. “Learn everyday, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper!” – John Bogle
146. “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
147. “No stock price is too low for bears or too high for bulls.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr.

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

149. “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

150. “Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.” – Benjamin Graham
151. “Individual who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.” – Benjamin Graham
152. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life until then.” – Warren Buffet
153. “I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett
154. “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
155. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” ― Warren Buffett
156. “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” – Warren Buffet
157. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” — Robert G. Allen
158. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
159. “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
160. “Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.” — Jim Cramer
161. “The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition.” — John D. Rockefeller
162. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
163. “Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part ownership of a business.” – Peter Lynch
164. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” – Rhonda Katz

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

166. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.”
     -Jeremy Siegel
167. “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
168. “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

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

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

171. “Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”
     ― Warren Buffett
172. “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” – Peter Lynch
173. “Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets … any sound investment will eventually pay off.” — Carlos Slim Helu
174. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
175. “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
176. “Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time.” — Jeff Bezos
177. “Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
178. “The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less.” – Joel Greenblatt
179. “We don’t have an analytical advantage, we just look in the right place.” – Seth Klarman
180. “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
181. “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
182. “No Price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.” — Anonymous
183. “Investment is an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future.” Anonymous
184. “Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.” — Peter Lynch
185. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” –Rhonda Katz
186. “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
187. “A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.” — Barton Biggs
188. “The investor’s chief problem — even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.” — Benjamin Graham
189. “No profession requires more hard work, intelligence, patience, and mental discipline than successful speculation.” – Robert Rhea
190. “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
191. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” — Albert Einstein
192. “Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results” — Warren Buffett
193. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” – Warren Buffett
194. “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
195. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
196. “You cannot save time for your future use however you can invest time for your future.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr. 
197. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
198. “Liquidity is only there when you don’t need it.” -Old Proverb
199. “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” – Richard Branson
200. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.” – Jeremy Siegel
201. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” – Robert Arnott
202. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” – Charlie Munger
203. “The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.” – Edward Lampert
204. “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
205. “It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton
206. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin.
207. “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
208. “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
209. “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
210. “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. -George Bernard Shaw
211. “There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”-Ed Seykota
212. “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.”
213. “As long as you enjoy investing, you’ll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game.” -Jim Cramer
214. “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
215. “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
216. “The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
217. “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
218. “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
219. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.” -Sir John Templeton
220. “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger