"Yes, the investor is often his own worst enemy. Yes, the marketing colossus known as the mutual fund industry provides the weaponry which enables investors' to indulge their suicidal instincts. No, the fund industry was hardly an innocent bystander in the market boom and the subsequent carnage. "We have met the enemy and he is us" . . . all of us."

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Source : Poster for Earth Day (1970). Also appeared in the Pogo comic strip for 8 Aug. 1970.

John C. Bogle

#Suicidal Quotes #Bystanders Quotes #Marketing Quotes

“It's a really incredible time to be working in television.”
“There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.”
“At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'”
“Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.”
“I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.”
“If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.”

Source : "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.
“Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.”

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