Top 29 Burton G. Malkiel Quotes
#1. Many of us economists who believe in efficiency do so because we view markets as amazingly successful devices for reflecting new information rapidly and, for the most part, accurately.
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#2. A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.
Liz W. Garcia
#3. Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
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#4. A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts,
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#5. We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than is commonly supposed.
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#6. Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.
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#7. According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.
Edward Gibbon
#9. To be a light in a child's world, nothing is more beautiful.
Marty Rubin
#11. Everybody wants to touch you all the time. I'm the only one who can't when I want to be the only one that can.
Mary Calmes
#13. It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
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#14. A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.
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#15. In the 1990s, the ratio of buy to sell recommendations climbed to 100 to 1, particularly for brokerage firms with large investment banking businesses.
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#16. That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write 'Fuck you' right under your nose.
J.D. Sallinger
#19. There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We
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#20. In many Latin American countries, the historic ties of Catholic bishops with the political elite rendered them less sensitive to the conditions of the poor and especially of indigenous people.
Moises Naim
#21. Historically, the stock market is like a gambling casino with the odds in your favor. Over the long pull, stocks are given something like nine and a half to ten percent compounded per year. The banks have probably given you something in the order of four to five.
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#22. I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
Douglas Coupland
#23. We are supposed to listen to the voice within us that says, "Gosh, this just doesn't sound loving, even though it sounds correct!" Of course, there's much sorting to be done: what does love really call for in a given situation? Nevertheless, the warning in Scripture is there for a reason.
Ken Wilson
#24. The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
James Joyce
#25. The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.
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#27. Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)
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#28. I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance.
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#29. For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.
Giancarlo Esposito
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