“But the investors who really follow the market, the ones who call up all the time, ninety percent of them really don't care whether they make money or not.”

—  George Goodman

Source: The Money Game (1968), Chapter 5, You Mean That's What Money Really Is?, p. 53

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American author and economics commentator 1930–2014

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