Beating The Market Quotes

#1. The best way to measure your investing success is not by whether you're beating the market but by whether you've put in place a financial plan and a behavioral discipline that are likely to get you where you want to go.

Benjamin Graham

#2. Question: So investors shouldn't delude themselves about beating the market? Answer: "They're just not going to do it. It's just not going to happen."

Daniel Kahneman

#3. Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces.

E. M. Forster

#4. Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

Federica Montseny

#5. I do get tired of humans

Audrey Niffenegger

#6. In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.

Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea

James J. Houts

#7. Eternal peace is hell for the adventurers.

Toba Beta

#8. There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

Joschka Fischer

#9. Oh my dear, no matter who you are, where you are, or how you are, I can hear your song. I can feel your pain, and I really care.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I'm not into that whole Satanic thing. It's just something to fall back on if you don't have much imagination. Singing you fiftieth song about having lunch with Satan
I'm not into it. It's silly.

Kirk Hammett

#11. None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#12. She felt that the diving image of Mme Stahl that she had carried in her soul for a whole month had vanished irretrievably ... And by no effort of imagination could she bring back the former Mme Stahl.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. When you succumb to obedience, in an erotic sense, you are not giving away a part of yourself, but seeking something new, something other, within yourself.

Chloe Thurlow

#14. I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#15. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

David F. Swensen

#16. But, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.

Alice Sebold

#17. Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Jermaine Jackson

#18. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

Magnus Carlsen

#19. The earnings have been pretty good so far, but there's an ambiguity in the market about them, because you'll see Amazon or Microsoft disappointing and then others beating.

Hugh S. Johnson