“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.”

—  John D. Rockefeller

Attributed in The Fourth — And by Far the Most Recent 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) by Robert Byrne; attributed elsewhere to Nathan M. Rothschild

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