Scott Cook Quotes

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

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• I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

  

  Gallagher
  • Want
  • Government
  • Fire

• Al Qaeda really hurt us, but not as much as Rupert Murdoch has hurt us, particularly in the case of Fox News. Fox News is worse than Al Qaeda - worse for our society. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Society
  • Hurt
  • Fox News

• For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

  

  Euripides
  • Praised
  • Disgust
  • Commended

• Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Time
  • Find
  • Devote

• That's why I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete. I think that's one of Apple's challenges, really. When two young people walk in with the next thing, are we going to embrace it and say this is fantastic? Are you going to be willing to drop our models, or are we going to explain it away? I think we'll do better, because we're completely aware of it and we make it a priority.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Death
  • Invention

• When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Car
  • Fool

• I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Weight
  • Drugs
  • Pills

• The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.

  

  David Shenk
  • Making
  • Communications
  • Electronic

• We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Serene

• If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • People
  • Religion

• 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
  • Approach
  • Investing
  • Indexing

• It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

  

  Mike Simpson
  • Consumers
  • Higher
  • Prescription

• Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

  

  Scott Cook
  • Consumers
  • Investing