Bubbles Quotes

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

– John Webster

It’s important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they’re forming.

– Janet Yellen

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

– Barry Gibb

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

– Frank Rich

We’ve suffered a ‘Ponzification’ of the economy in recent years, as bubbles have built up and then burst, and each time we act as though it’s the first time.

– Mitchell Zuckoff

What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset bubbles and irrational exuberance. There are periods of booms, bubbles, and manias. These things, if left to themselves, can lead to crashes, to busts, to panics.

– Nouriel Roubini

Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that’s the stuff of bubbles.

– Kenneth Fisher

Eroticism bubbles beneath the surface of every vampire story, but Anne Rice is a writer to make the pot boil.

– Janet Maslin

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

– Rem Koolhaas