Indices Quotes

#1. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.

Barry Ritholtz

#2. She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.

Joan Didion

#3. Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises to declare that they are to start from 0.5.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#4. There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#5. Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

Lewis Carroll

#6. It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

Stan Kelly-Bootle

#9. From the Olympian heights of an executive suite, in an atmosphere where your success is judged by the extent to which you can maximise profits, the overwhelming tendency must be to see people as units of production, as indices in your accountants' books.

Jimmy Reid

#10. My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

Joseph Altuzarra

#11. Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Abigail Adams

#14. I licked my lips and whispered, "Is this where you say you'll kill me?"
One corner of his lips curled. "If you like," he murmured, a flicker of amusement finally crossing his face. "Though it's gotten far too interesting for that.

Julie Kagawa

#15. I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

David Mitchell

#16. I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.

Neil Diamond

#17. I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Joel Osteen