General Investment Authority

Famous quotes containing the words general, investment and/or authority:

    “When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.””
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the bootmaker.”
    —Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)