Laurence D. Fink Quotes

#1. Because (in principle) things outlast us, they know more about us than we know about them: they carry the experiences they have had with us inside them and are - in fact- the book of our history opened before us.

W.G. Sebald

#2. I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges.

Laurence D. Fink

#3. Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Anonymous

#4. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.

Roy Bennett

#5. Honesty is the knife with which we carve our paths. Sometimes we cut ourselves or others in the process.

E.S. Moxon

#6. To finance longer life spans, we must convince individuals to start investing now for the long term. But longevity should be an asset that can be levered, not a curse. They must understand that there's a cost to sitting in cash. No one talks about that cost.

Laurence D. Fink

#7. My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

#8. It's difficult to gauge that. With a bad guy you just know you're bad. To play a nice guy is harder - unless you are a very nice person like me of course.

James D'arcy

#9. When people tell me they will give it a try, I say don't bother, you have already decided to fail. It takes more than a try to quit addictions; it takes a commitment. A commitment is a promise that you stick with, no matter what.

Joel Fuhrman

#10. You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.

David Cross

#11. Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man

Bertrand Russell

#12. When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Laurence D. Fink

#13. Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.

Laurence D. Fink

#15. I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

Laurence D. Fink

#16. Those who still eat flesh when they could do otherwise have no claim to be serious moralists.

Stephen R. L. Clark

#17. I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

Laurence D. Fink

#18. I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

Laurence D. Fink

#19. One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.

Laurence D. Fink