Quotes & Signatures...Mostly Quotes.

"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." --William Claude Dukenfield (W.C. Fields)

"Hell, Lumbergh fucked her."

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

Mark Twain


Lady Astor (to Winston Churchill, after a remark at her expense): "If I were your wife, I'd poison your coffee."

Churchill: "And if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"

Hindsight may be 20/20 but foresight is more profitable.

"Captain Hindsight"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esXJN_OTkmU

"The mind is everything...what you think - you therefore become" Buddha

"The darkest hour is just before dawn."

-- The Mamas & the Papas in a 1960s song

(Well, that's how I recall first hearing it, but I believe that little bit of folk wisdom has been around for centuries, and has been attributed to various people over the years.)

And it often seems to be true, both in our personal lives and with respect to markets and economics.

Market historians have often noted that pessimism tends to peak shortly before a turnaround begins.