Debt-Ceiling Extension & Energy Fuels Stock Market Bounce To Produce Weekly Gains – $CCXI $INVO $NFLX $TSLA $XLE Rise!

Happy Weekend All!

I hope that you all had a wonderful week and that the rebound in the markets helped to enrich your investment accounts to heights that you never imagined. If we are dreaming, then maybe to levels similar to where the Blue Angels are achieving as they fly over my head this weekend during the annual Fleet Week Celebration in San Francisco. Please see the picture below that I snapped from my back deck on Friday! They are truly amazing to see & hear this close!

As for as the stock market, it rebounded after last week’s selloff. However the rebound, really did not begin until later in the week, when the Senate approved a bill on Thursday that is extending the debt ceiling by $480B & through Dec. 3rd.  Even with that decision, volatility seems to be here to stay as we are still living with the fact that energy prices, persistent, albeit transient, supply-chain disruptions, and labor-market shortages are expected to be with us, at least for the immediate future. 

At the end of the week, the markets closed as follows: The S&P 500 closed at 4,391.34 (+.8%) & is up 16.9% YTD, the Dow 30 closed at 34,746.25 (+1.2%) & is up 13.5% YTD, & the Nasdaq closed at 14,579.54 (+.8%) and is up 13.1% YTD. 8 of the 11 sectors closed in the green as the energy sector popped 5% as oil prices surged to close at $79.49 up 4.8% weekly (+63.8% YTD) (a 7-year-high) as OPEC+ continues to manipulate prices via their restrictive and coordinated agreement. Natural gas also rose for a moment this week to 2008 levels and have doubled this year, while coal prices have moved to year highs. The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund or ETF (XLE) closed at $56.57, +5.07% over the last five days. The financials sector also jumped 2.3% on the backs of the rising interest rates as the 10-yr treasury yield climbed 15 basis points to 1.60% and the 2-yr yield rose to close at .31%. The U.S. Dollar Index ended at 94.12. The 3 sectors that ended lower included the real estate sector off .8%, the health care sector off .3%, & the communication services sector ticking down .1%.

Unfortunately, the small caps on the Russell 2000 did not fair as well the big boys this week and closed at 2,233.09 (-.4%), but remain up 13.1% YTD. The MicroCaps also sang a similar tune as the iShares Micro-Cap ETF (IWC) closed at $145.44, -.83% for the week, but remains up 23.58% YTD. 

MACRO REPORTS 

Many more macroeconomic reports surfaced again this week. On Monday, the Factory Orders report for August confirmed a rise of 1.2%.  On Tuesday, the ISM Non-Manufacturing Index report for September rose to 61.9%. The August Trade Balance report confirmed a widening of the trade deficit to $73.3B, a mark that greater than expected. The final IHS Markit Services PMI report rose to 54.9 in September.  On Wednesday, the ADP report estimated that private sector payrolls rose by 568k in September, number that was better than expected. The weekly MBA Mortgage Applications Index report confirmed a drop by 6.9%. On Thursday, the Initial jobless claims report for the week ending October 2 confirmed a drop by 38k to 326k & the continuing claims report for the week ending September 25 confirmed a drop by 97k to 2.714M. The Consumer credit report also confirmed a rise by $14.4B in August. On Friday, the September nonfarm payrolls report rose by 194k beige expectations, while the the unemployment rate fell to 4.8%, average hourly earnings rose by .6%, & the labor force participation rate fell to 61.6%. The wholesale inventories report confirmed a rise by 1.2% in August in line with expectations. 

Next week, the macroeconomic schedule will serve the PPI report, the unemployment rate report, & the Retail Sales growth report.

STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

Coca Cola Turns To 3 So-called Bulk Carriers As Container Rates Rise

Biotech Giant Amgen Makes Investment In Precision Medicines for Brain Diseases Focused Neumora Therapeutics

Emirates Airline Seeking Timetable Update For Boeing’s 777X Deliveries

Nike Continues To Rule As Top Choice Among Teens

McDonald’s Preparing For Zero Emissions By 2050

FAANG’s REBOUND

The FAANG’s weekly returns were as follows: Apple (AAPL) closed at $142.90, +.18%, Amazon (AMZN) closed at $3,288.62, +.16% for the week, Alphabet (GOOG) closed at $2,801.12, +2.63% for the week, Facebook (FB) closed at $330.05, -3.78% this week & Netflix (NFLX) closed at $632.66/share, +3.18%. The MicroSectors FANG+ Index 3X Leveraged ETN (FNGU), which offers 3x leveraged exposure to an index of “FANG” companies, and other companies that exhibit similar characteristics, closed at $35.90, +7.32% for the week. 

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) announced it 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. At that time, the company will issue a brief advisory release via newswire containing a link to the third-quarter 2021 financial results and letter to shareholders on its website.

EV- TECH 

Shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) closed at $142.90, +.18% this week. Apple’s CarPlay interface is used by drivers to control music, obtain directions, plus make calls. Apple also now planning to expand its reach within cars as they are seeking to add technology that would control the climate-control system, speedometer, radio, & seats, via an initiative, referred to as “IronHeart” internally.

Leading EV car maker Tesla (TSLA) moved higher to close at $785.49, +1.32% for the week. Tesla, Inc. announced updates to its 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders Live video webcasts of the 2021 Annual Meeting event will be accessible to the general public at www.tesla.com/2021shareholdermeeting. Tesla also announced the production of approximately 238,000 vehicles & the delivery of over 240,000 vehicles in Q3. Tesla is also moving its headquarters to Austin, TX. 

Shares of Ford Motor Co. (F) moved higher to close at $15.09, +6.57% for the week. On Oct. 4th, Ford reported that new products & improved inventory have propelled Ford to “Top-Selling Automaker in September” with Retail Sales Up 34.3% Compared to August; 52,000 New Vehicle Orders Placed; Lincoln Brand Retail Sales Increase 52.6% Over August as Nautilus Sales Soar.

Microsoft (MSFT) closed at $289.10, -3.42% for the week. On October 7, Microsoft, in collaboration with private- and public-sector partners, announced the launch of Accelerate Miami-Dade. The program aims to provide a pathway from skilling to employment for Miami-Dade residents to bridge the digital skills divide and route people to diverse and equitable hiring and re-employment opportunities. Job seekers in Miami-Dade can start their journey toward their career reinvigoration today, with programs, events and opportunities available now at aka.ms/AccelerateMiamiDade.

Dow 30 component and global leader in CRM, salesforce.com (CRM), closed at $272.48, -1.01% this week. On September 23, salesforce announced a revision to its Fiscal Year 2022 revenue guidance and initiation of Fiscal Year 2023 guidance as of Sept. 23, 2021. The raised FY22 revenue guidance to a range of $26.25 billion to $26.35 billion.

NVIDIA Corporation closed lower $208.31, +.43% for the week.  On Oct. 5th, NVIDIA announced it is extending its collaboration with Lenovo to include participation in NVIDIA’s early access program in support of Project Monterey, which is designed to modernize enterprise data centers with the security and performance of NVIDIA® BlueField® data processing units. Also, Announced by VMware with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners at VMworld 2020, Project Monterey aims to improve the performance, manageability and security of enterprise data centers through the latest networking technologies, including NVIDIA BlueField DPUs. Built for AI and accelerated computing, BlueField DPUs enable delivery of applications at any scale by offloading, accelerating and isolating data center workloads.

Cathie Wood’s ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) closed at $110.60, -.51% for the week.

The Technology Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLK) closed at $151.97, +.26% for the week.

DISNEY

Disney (DIS) closed at $176.01, +.01% for the week. Disney will discuss fiscal full year and fourth quarter 2021 financial results via a live audio webcast beginning at 4:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Results will be released after the close of regular trading on November 10, 2021. To listen to the webcast, please visit www.disney.com/investors.

BIOTECH DROPS AGAIN – $CCXI FLYS!

The Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (IBB) closed at $155.05, -2.44% for the week & nearly down 10% in 2-weeks. The NYSE ARCA Biotech Index (^BTK) closed at 5,601.29, -1.21% for the week and is now down -2.4% YTD. In concert this week, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI) closed at $123.44, -2.16% for the week and is off 12.32% for the year. The XBI’s 52-wk range is $109.82-$174.79.

San Carlos-based ChemoCentryx, Inc., (Nasdaq: CCXI), announced on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved TAVNEOS (avacopan), an orally administered selective complement 5a receptor inhibitor, as an adjunctive treatment of adult patients with severe active anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis (also known as ANCA-associated vasculitis or ANCA vasculitis), specifically granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) (the two main forms of ANCA vasculitis), in combination with standard therapy. ANCA-associated vasculitis is a systemic autoimmune disease in which over-activation of the complement system further activates neutrophils, leading to inflammation and eventual destruction of small blood vessels. This results in organ damage and failure, with the kidney as the major target, and is often fatal if not treated. Shares of CCXI jumped to closes at $38.41, +95.97%!

One our portfolio companies in the biotech sector, privately owned Cytovia Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing allogeneic “off-the-shelf” gene-edited iNK and CAR (Chimeric Antigen Receptor)-iNK cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and NK cell engager multifunctional antibodies, and CytoLynx Therapeutics (“CytoLynx), its newly-formed China-focused joint venture, announced recently that they have closed $45 million from institutional investors to finance the IND enabling and initial clinical development of their pipeline. Cytovia’s management is currently targeting to go public in early-mid 2022.  Note that, Cytovia and TF Capital, a leading China-based biotech institutional investor, have formed CytoLynx Therapeutics. TF Capital along with YF Capital, BioTrack Capital, Ruihua Capital, and TG Sino-Dragon Fund (backed by TigerMed) have invested $45 million to support the new venture, as well as Cytovia research and development projects. The collaboration agreements between CytoLynx and Cytovia will advance multiple NK therapeutics through product development in the Greater China region. Additionally, CytoLynx obtained a technology license from Cytovia based on its core technologies to allow in-China development of additional NK therapeutics for global commercialization. Cytovia is eligible to receive up to $400 million in upfront development and commercial milestones under the agreement. The bankers from the largest IBanks are now circling their wagons and the valuation estimates are swelling as they consider swiftly moving forward with a Series C round with the who’s who in the world of institutional biotech investors and then pushing towards and IPO!

GOLD & SILVER

Gold prices closed at $1,759 down $3 for the week & silver prices closed at $22.69, +$.12/oz for the week.

MEMES REPORT

AMC Entertainment (AMC), closed at $37.19, -3.30% for the week. On Monday, AMC announced that it just set a new post-reopening record for weekend attendance (Thursday through Sunday), as well new post-opening records for ticket admission revenues and food & beverage sales. This was driven by the openings of VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE in the United States and the latest James Bond movie, NO TIME TO DIE, overseas.

GameStop (GME) closed at $172.68, -2.39% for the week. 

Virgin Galactic Holdings (SPCE) closed at $23.12, -2.98% for the week. On Wednesday SPCE, 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.”

Infamous ‘meme brokerage’ firm Robinhood Markets, Inc., (HOOD) moved higher this week closing at $41.78, -.29% for the week & still higher then IPO shares which were sold at $38 this year! The HOOD had 22.5 million funded accounts at the end of June.

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHIP) closed at $1.38, -3.5% for the week. SHIP is the ‘only pure-play Capesize ship-owner publicly listed in the US’, recently announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase plan. Under the Plan, the Company may repurchase up to $17 million of its outstanding common shares, representing approximately 10% of the Company’s market capitalization as of August 10, 2021.

BITCOIN REPEATS

Bitcoin $BTC.X closed at $54,142.62, up another 10.24% after last weeks +9.97% weekly. Bitcoin has flown an amazing 86% this year. 

SOLAR ACQUISITION  

On October 5, SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR, $23.96), a leading solar technology and energy services provider, announced it acquired Blue Raven Solar, one of the fastest growing residential solar providers in the U.S. Blue Raven’s growth trajectory and complementary geographic footprint is expected to provide SunPower a path to quickly expand the solar market to serve more customers in underpenetrated areas including the Northwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.
“More than 100 million homeowners could save money by switching to solar today, and we are committed to enabling that transition quickly to benefit both customers and the planet,” said Peter Faricy, CEO of SunPower. “SunPower and Blue Raven share a vision of powering the world with affordable, resilient, sustainable energy. This acquisition will enable us to bring the most powerful and efficient solar technology available to a new set of homeowners and accelerate our growth strategy.” The acquisition was made for cash consideration of up to $165 million. Blue Raven CEO Ben Peterson will join SunPower’s executive team, and the company expects to build upon Blue Raven’s current employee and contractor relationships. Since its founding in 2014, Blue Raven has built a profitable and high-growth business, achieving 93% revenue compound annual growth rate (CAGR) with a direct-to-consumer sales and installation model. Blue Raven currently conducts more than 90% of its volume in 14 states that account for only about 5% of SunPower’s sales, creating a significant net-new geographic coverage opportunity for SunPower.

The Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund or ETF (XLE) closed at $56.57, +5.07% over the last five days.
 

NEXT WEEK

The stock market will enjoy another normal 5-day trading week, however, the bond market is closed on Monday to observe the Columbus Day holiday.  

VP WATCHLIST UPDATES

Please review our complete VP Watchlist that includes Apple (AAPL), Disney (DIS), Tesla (TSLA) & a select group of emerging names.  The pages will allow you to learn more and keep up with these companies daily.

For now, see the summaries or five of the emerging companies from the VP Watchlist below:

Thanks again for your attention this week. Please continue to share your thoughts, questions, & ideas as we move forward. 

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Investing & Inspiration

1. “The deal machinations many companies put themselves through, while certainly a bonanza for investment bankers, can confound the typical investor.” – Whitney Tilson
2. “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
3. “Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.” – Don Marquis

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

5. “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
6. “One fails forward toward success.” – Charles Kettering
7. “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
8. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius
9. “I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
10. “Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Elizabeth Bibesco
11. “As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.” – Ben Hogan
12. “Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.” – Thor Heyerdahl
13. “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
14. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” -Samuel Beckett
15. “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
16. “Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” – Satchel Paige
17. “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
18. “The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.” – Aristotle Onassis
19. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” – John Leonard
20. “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”– Sholom Aleichem
21. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem
22. “Man is only great when he acts from passion.” – Benjamin Disraeli
23. “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
24. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
25. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
26. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
27. “Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.” – Peter Diamandis
28. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin
29. “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
30. “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
31. “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar N. Bradley
32. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
33. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey 
34. “Every good painter paints what he is.” – Jackson Pollock
35. “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
36. “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
37. “You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer 
38. “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
39. “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 
40. “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” – Josh Billings 
41. “Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.” – Joel Osteen
42. “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
43. “The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.” – Jean Paul 

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

45. “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
46. “In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.” – Zaza Pachulia
47. “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
48. “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
49. “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
50. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “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
52. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward- American Writer, Born 1921
53. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
54. “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” – Mike Murdock
55.  “If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” – Leah LaBelle
56. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”. -Thomas A. Edison
57. “Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.” – Ed Markey

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

59. “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
60. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

66. “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

67. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. “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
69. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
70. “The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.” – Eminem

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

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

73. “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll
74. “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
75. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
76. “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
77. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”–  Duke Ellington
78. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
79. “I’m involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.” – Regis Philbin
80. “Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.” – John Landgraf
81. “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
82. “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
83. “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
84. “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
85. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” –  Ralph Waldo Emerson
86. “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

87. “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

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

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

90. “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
91. “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
92. “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
93. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
94. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
95. “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

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

97. “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
98. “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

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

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

101. “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

102. “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
103. “Inflation destroys savings, impedes planning, and discourages investment. That means less productivity and a lower standard of living.” – Kevin Brady
104. “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
105. “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
106. “Historically, there has been a bull market in the commodities every 20 or 30 years.” – Jim Rogers
107. “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
108. “Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or the elections.” – Warren Buffett
109. “An important key to investing is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets.” – Peter Lynch
110. “Learn everyday, but especially from the experiences of others. It’s cheaper!” – John Bogle
111. “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
112. “No stock price is too low for bears or too high for bulls.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr.

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

114. “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

115. “Even the intelligent investor is likely to need considerable willpower to keep from following the crowd.” – Benjamin Graham
116. “Individual who cannot master their emotions are ill-suited to profit from the investment process.” – Benjamin Graham
117. “I made my first investment at age eleven. I was wasting my life until then.” – Warren Buffet
118. “I don’t look to jump over seven-foot bars; I look around for one-foot bars that I can step over.” — Warren Buffett
119. “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
120. “Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble” ― Warren Buffett
121. “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” – Warren Buffet
122. “How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.” — Robert G. Allen
123. “It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price, than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett
124. “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
125. “Every once in a while, the market does something so stupid it takes your breath away.” — Jim Cramer
126. “The person who starts simply with the idea of getting rich won’t succeed; you must have a larger ambition.” — John D. Rockefeller
127. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
128. “Although it’s easy to forget sometimes, a share is not a lottery ticket… it’s part ownership of a business.” – Peter Lynch
129. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” – Rhonda Katz

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

131. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.”
     -Jeremy Siegel
132. “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
133. “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

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

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

136. “Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.”
     ― Warren Buffett
137. “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.” – Peter Lynch
138. “Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets … any sound investment will eventually pay off.” — Carlos Slim Helu
139. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
140. “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
141. “Given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time.” — Jeff Bezos
142. “Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.” ― Idowu Koyenikan
143. “The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something – and then pay a lot less.” – Joel Greenblatt
144. “We don’t have an analytical advantage, we just look in the right place.” – Seth Klarman
145. “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
146. “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
147. “No Price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.” — Anonymous
148. “Investment is an asset or item that is purchased with the hope that it will generate income or appreciate in the future.” Anonymous
149. “Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.” — Peter Lynch
150. “Wise spending is part of wise investing. And it’s never too late to start.” –Rhonda Katz
151. “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
152. “A bull market is like sex. It feels best just before it ends.” — Barton Biggs
153. “The investor’s chief problem — even his worst enemy — is likely to be himself.” — Benjamin Graham
154. “No profession requires more hard work, intelligence, patience, and mental discipline than successful speculation.” – Robert Rhea
155. “Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.” – William Somerset Maugham
156. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.” — Albert Einstein
157. “Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results” — Warren Buffett
158. “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” – Warren Buffett
159. “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
160. “Investing puts money to work. The only reason to save money is to invest it.” – Grant Cardone
161. “You cannot save time for your future use however you can invest time for your future.” – John F. Heerdink, Jr. 
162. “Know what you own, and know why you own it.” – Peter Lynch
163. “Liquidity is only there when you don’t need it.” -Old Proverb
164. “If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.” – Richard Branson
165. “Fear incites human action far more urgently than does the impressive weight of historical evidence.” – Jeremy Siegel
166. “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” – Robert Arnott
167. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.” – Charlie Munger
168. “The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.” – Edward Lampert
169. “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
170. “It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” – John Templeton
171. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin.
172. “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
173. “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
174. “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
175. “If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion. -George Bernard Shaw
176. “There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”-Ed Seykota
177. “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.”
178. “As long as you enjoy investing, you’ll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game.” -Jim Cramer
179. “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
180. “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
181. “The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
182. “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
183. “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
184. “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.” -Sir John Templeton
185. “Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger