Top 31 Malkiel Quotes
#2. A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.
Rita Levi-Montalcini
#3. Some people at the party, she adds, are freaks, then mentions a drug I've never heard of, and tells me a story that involves ski masks, zombies, a van, chains, a secret community, and asks me about a Hispanic girl who disappeared in some desert.
Bret Easton Ellis
#4. Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.
Burton Malkiel
#5. But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.
Yaron Brook
#6. 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
#8. It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.
Theresa Serber Malkiel
#9. And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
Lee Ann Womack
#10. We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than is commonly supposed.
Burton Malkiel
#11. Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be 'that' [Liberation].
Dada Bhagwan
#12. Never buy anything from someone who is out of breath.
Burton Malkiel
#13. Make the time to be scared of more interesting things
Merlin Mann
#15. Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.
N.J. Hallard
#17. As you thus take "sweet counsel" with others in the ways of God, take care that the theme of your converse is the Lord Jesus. Let the eye of faith be constantly looking unto him; let your heart be full of him; let your lips speak of his worth. Friend, live near to the cross, and thou wilt not sleep.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#18. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you feed yourself what your body needs when it needs it, that's love. So give your bod some TLC and sit down and enjoy a good, substantial breakfast.
Kathy Freston
#19. If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. It's not that stock prices are capricious. It's that the news is capricious.
Burton Malkiel
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#25. There is one investment truism that, if followed, can dependably increase your investment returns: Minimize your investment costs. We
Burton G. Malkiel
#26. 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
#27. I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes.
John McPhee
#28. 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
#29. Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest. (A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.)
Burton G. Malkiel
#30. 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
#31. Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.
Mark Hoppus
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