Passive Investing Quotes

#1. Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Merton Miller

#2. Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

Charles R. Schwab

#3. I came. I saw the enormous possibilities and power of the human mind. It is the biggest plot of fertile land in the world. We just have to find the right see and the right technique of cultivation.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!

Merton Miller

#5. There is no need to worry about whether you are capable of manifesting what you want. The truth is, the universe already is providing you exactly what you have asked.

Caroline A. Shearer

#6. I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.

Madeleine Stowe

#7. It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

Frederick Mosteller

#8. We can fix that. We can fix anything. So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing.

Kaya McLaren

#9. Unless an investor has access to 'incredibly high-qualified professionals,' they should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

David F. Swensen

#10. The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#11. What would you grab, if you had to pack up your life in only minutes?

Jodi Picoult

#12. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Samuel Johnson

#13. The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win.

Warren Buffett

#14. I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.

Paul Simonon

#15. Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Mark Twain

#16. Dream is nothing but lust
Gain is nothing but dust
Strong is standing to fall
Iron is waiting to rust

Nadeem Fraz

#17. The word passive does a disservice to investors considering their options. Indexing provides an effective means of owning the market and allows investors to participate in the returns of a basket of stocks. The basket of stocks changes over time as stocks are added or removed based on its rules.

Charles R. Schwab