William J. Bernstein Quotes

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

• Running
• Problem
• Enough
• Failing
• Investing
• Fund
• Nests

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• In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • World
  • Running

• Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Failing
  • Organizations

• Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Problem
  • Ego

• I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.

  

  Oxana Chusovitina
  • Children
  • Running
  • Look

• In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• If the government would like to hire my services to maximize value for their stake, they should approach me. No problem.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Problem
  • Government
  • Value

• I don't want to get too detailed into it, but when you're a good high school running back, you can almost be whatever type of runner you want to be. If you're a good size and a good athlete, you can be whatever type of runner you want.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Running
  • Lawyer

• Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• You can never have enough talent.

  

  Pat Riley
  • You
  • Enough
  • Talent

• I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Life
  • Problem
  • My Life

• The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• When you're headlining, people are paying to come see you specifically. It's a different kind of pressure, because you've got to deliver. You've got to give these people what they paid for. It's a different mind state, a different type of mentality, but it's honestly a pretty good problem to have, you know?

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Period

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• The problem with the so-called bloody surveillance state is that it’s hard work trying to track someone’s movements using CCTV – especially if they’re on foot. Part of the problem is that the cameras all belong to different people for different reasons. Westminster Council has a network for traffic violations, the Oxford Street Trading Association has a huge network aimed at shop-lifters and pickpockets, individual shops have their own systems, as do pubs, clubs and buses. When you walk around London it is important to remember that Big Brother may be watching you, or he could be having a piss, or reading the paper or helping redirect traffic around a car accident or maybe he’s just forgotten to turn the bloody thing on.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Forgotten

• That's a big important deal, the way people see you from the stage. Once in a while, I'd ask people, 'How did you enjoy the show?' 'Hey, you looked great.' But how did I sound? That visual look is very important to people.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

  

  Bryan Cranston
  • Attention

• Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

  

  Jerry Jones

• 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
  • Running
  • Problem
  • Enough