Hugh S. Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Oil #Elements #Variables
The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Amazon #Microsoft #Earning
When it appears as though the governors of the Federal Reserve believe that the end of the rate increases is near, that's very good news for investors. A lack of ambiguity from the Federal Reserve is always a little bit of a shocker.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Believe #News #Littles
Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Dollars #Employment #Tomorrow
The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Healing #Wine #Age
The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.
-- Hugh S. Johnson

#Government #World #Immortality

To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It's - I think they might use too much oil in their hummus - but it's the wrong question.
And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. ... I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.
The single most powerful element of youth is that you don't have the life experiences to know what can't be done.
And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.
I don't look at a problem and put variables in there that don't affect it.
But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

Hugh S. Johnson famous quotes

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