Top 29 Burton Malkiel Quotes
#1. It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
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#2. Sellout ... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.
Bill Withers
#3. Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
Burton Malkiel
#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,
Burton Malkiel
#5. Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
Nathaniel Branden
#6. It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.
Andre Rieu
#7. We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than is commonly supposed.
Burton Malkiel
#8. Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.
Burton Malkiel
#10. With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.
John C. Maxwell
#13. For every person who will say yes, there are twenty who will say no. For a positive response you must find the twenty-first person.
Chuck Reaves
#15. Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
#16. ... we live in a society of larvae--immature human beings, adolescents disguised as adults.
Lyudmila Ulitskaya
#17. A firm's income statement may be, likened to a bikini-what it reveals is interesting but what it conceals is vital.
Burton G. Malkiel
#18. In the 1990s, the ratio of buy to sell recommendations climbed to 100 to 1, particularly for brokerage firms with large investment banking businesses.
Burton G. Malkiel
#19. By becoming the embodiment of His will, we make God real in the world
Sunday Adelaja
#20. 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.
Burton Malkiel
#22. There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We
Burton G. Malkiel
#23. 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.
Burton Malkiel
#24. Following Christ is a daily thing, not just a one-time thing
Mike Fisher
#25. Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo Da Vinci
#26. 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.
Burton Malkiel
#27. Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)
Burton G. Malkiel
#28. Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.
Judith Guest
#29. 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.
Burton Malkiel
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