Top 23 Quotes About Indexing
#1. I suggest that there is a splendid way out of the difficulty of marriage, and that is my way - stay out.
Agnes Macphail
#2. One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.
Charlie Munger
#3. 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
#4. My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.
Paul Walker
#5. The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
Sharon Begley
#6. This life had always been my routine but now it felt like a cage.
Katie Kacvinsky
#7. No linear indexing system is adequate to express the multi-dimensionality of knowledge," Dr. Waterhouse reminds him.
Neal Stephenson
#8. Associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the Memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.
Vannevar Bush
#9. Detailed analytical indexing is generally the hallmark of good back-of-the-book indexes.
Hans H Wellisch
#10. It removes information from the market when I need more and more ... Indexing is a waste heap
information so merged and muffled that it hides knowledge rather than reveals it. All beta, no alpha.
George Gilder
#12. Market-cap based indexing will never be driven from its deserved perch as core and deserved king of the investment world. It is what we should all own in theory and it has delivered low-cost equity returns to a great mass of investors ... the now and forever king-of-the-hill.
Cliff Asness
#13. Well, I've never met an indexer any more than I've met a real writer. I'm impressed." Miss Finch's tone had changed, and she was suddenly leaning toward me, almost half over the counter. "Tell me, do you make any real money at this job, writing indexes for books?
Larry D. Sweazy
#14. We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described.
Hans H Wellisch
#15. Check your passions that you may not be punished by them.
Epictetus
#16. I'm thinking of a presidential bid; currently indexing and cross-referencing everyone I've tweeted my junk to. 8x10s available.
Christopher Titus
#17. She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.
Genevieve Cogman
#18. 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
#19. If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong.
John C. Bogle
#20. Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.
Patrick Geddes
#21. [With] closet indexing ... you're paying a manager a fortune and he has 85% of his assets invested parallel to the indexes. If you have such a system, you're being played for a sucker.
Charlie Munger
#22. The ocean flows of online information are all streaming together, and the access tools are becoming absolutely critical. If you don't index it, it doesn't exist. It's out there but you can't find it, so it might as well not be there.
Barbara Quint
#23. If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.
James O'Shaughnessy
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