Market Index Quotes

#1. All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.

R.C. Sproul

#2. After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking of joining him rather than trying to beat him. Bogle's wisdom and common sense are indispensable ... for anyone trying to figure out how to invest in this crazy stock market.

Jim Cramer

#3. It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

William J. Bernstein

#4. A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.

Frances Beinecke

#5. The computers were index-linked to the Galactic stock-market prices, you see, so that we'd all be revived when everybody else had rebuilt the economy enough to afford our rather expensive services.

Douglas Adams

#6. In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.

Carol Loomis

#7. Without doubt, our inability to design and implement a sustainable economic framework has resulted to our present ranking on the globalization index; a precious market to the productive countries.

Tony Osborg

#8. W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#9. Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

John C. Bogle

#10. I fight because international law recognises my right.

Xanana Gusmao

#11. A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

David F. Swensen

#12. My approach is simple. It is nothing other than what I am thinking at the time I make each piece of clothing, whether I think it is strong and beautiful. The result is something that other people decide.

Rei Kawakubo

#13. When did you ever worry about offending me?' 'Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. God doesn't start miracles without finishing them.

Alessandro Manzoni

#15. 35% Vanguard U.S. Bond Index (Symbol VBMFX) 35% Vanguard Total U.S. Stock Market Index (Symbol VTSMX) 30% Vanguard Total International Stock Market Index (Symbol VGTSX)

Andrew Hallam

#16. I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said. It made me uneasy, as though the whole evening had been a trick of some sort to extract a contributory emotion from me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#17. I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

Corey Haim

#18. The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

John Green

#19. I love watching other beauty girls on YouTube, so I get a lot of ideas through their videos. I also get plenty of requests from viewers, which is great. I can never run out of ideas!

Zoe Sugg

#20. Belief in a higher power was a form of psychosis.

Claire Merle

#21. The slope that leads toward insanity has the paradoxical distinction of being both steep and yet undetectable to the person sliding down it.

Suzanne Rindell

#22. Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

Richard Corliss