Wally Barker Quotes

• California will have the most beautiful sea shore in the world but no one will be able to drive to see it. 

• The Environmentalist give conservationist a bad name.

• Good Inflation; Bad Inflation.  "Bad inflation is when your food and gas prices go up. Good inflation is when housing prices go up, unless of course you don't own a home but want to. To think that they are not somehow related seems a bit naive."

• Denial   Denial is very powerful intoxicant.

• Bubbles.  "If  a 'bubbles' are the result of the reality of the times, how would one know when it was a 'bubble' inside a 'bubble'?"

• Capitalism and Communism  are they same thing - they eventually meet in the middle.   It is ironic that I see more raw capitalism in Russia and China than I do in America.   Capitalism:  Although it would be nice, can't get from A to Z without going through B and C and the another not so pleasant phases.    

• Information.  "If information were the key to success, librarian would be a lot wealthier."

• Fixing Broken Companies.  "The ironic is that the worse they get, the easier they are to turn around." 

• Capital Markets  "The more people believe in the 'efficient market', the less efficient it becomes."

• The US Economy.  "Measuring the health of an economy based on how much overpriced cup of coffee or junk food gets consumed seems a bit silly."

• Contrarians.  "Being a contrarian doesn't make you right, it makes you different."  "Being right when other are wrong - that makes you a contrarian!"

• USA.  "I see the USA more clearly from 6,000 mile away than I can see it from inside the country."

• Mistakes and Success.  “Success isn’t about not making mistake, its more about not making the same ones over and over”  "OK to be wrong.  Not OK to stay wrong"

• Struggling.  "the learning that comes from struggling generally forms a base more enduring than raw talent, which generally fades from disuse."

• Influence.  "my footprints are all over it, but not my fingerprints"

• Japan.  "Losing face is Japan is to lose everything....but to lose everything is not to lose face"