George Goodman Quotes

George Jerome Waldo Goodman was an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith . He also wrote fiction under the name "George Goodman". Wikipedia  

✵ 10. August 1930 – 3. January 2014
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Famous George Goodman Quotes

“All the funds simply can't get through the exit door at the same time.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 15, The Cult of Performance, p. 215

“Godliness is in league with riches.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 21, The Purposive Investor, p. 298

“When there is no game, don't play,…”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 18, Timing And A Diversion: The Cocoa Game, p. 253

“The world is not the way they tell you it is.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 1, Why Did The master Say "Game"?, p. 3

George Goodman Quotes

“The phrase " the Gnomes of Zurich" was coined by George Brown, the Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 19, My Friend The Gnome of Zurich, p. 272

“You have to go for the quantum jumps.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 7, Identity And Anxiety, p. 89

“Somebody has to be on the other side.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 14, Why Are The Little People Always Wrong?, p. 200

“Most accountants are honorable men, trying to do a job. But they are hired by corporations, not by investors.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 13, But What Do The Numbers Mean?, p. 185

“The reason everybody signed up for a computer was that everybody else was signing up for a computer.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 12, Computers And Computeers, p. 169

“Currencies do not vote.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 20, If All The Half Dollars Have Disappeared...?, p. 282

“Nothing works all the time and in all kinds of markets.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 9, Mr Smith Admits His Biases, p. 104

“You can be in love with that piece of paper if you want to, but that piece of paper doesn't love you,…”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 7, Identity And Anxiety, p. 81

“The strongest emotions in the marketplace are greed and fear.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 7, Identity And Anxiety, p. 79

“Prices have no memory, and yesterday has nothing to do with tomorrow.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 11, What The Hell Is A Random Walk?, p. 148

“what moves is what is already moving. Sort of Newtonian.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 17, Losers And Winners,

“In fact, a crowd of men acts like a single woman.”

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 2, Mister Johnson's Reading List, p. 23

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