William J. Bernstein Quotes
There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.
William J. Bernstein
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I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
Lee Myung-bak
The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.
Barack Obama
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
Anne Carson
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.
Ben Bernanke
We would see lower levels of investment, lower economic growth, and as a result, lower wage gains.
Edward Lazear
As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.
Marian Wright Edelman
The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.
Mark Steyn
I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.
Bob Ross
Our very life depends on everythings' recurring til we answer from within.
Robert Frost
It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.
Jesse Livermore
A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.
Pierre Jean de Beranger
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
William Jennings Bryan
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.
William James
I never had one day that I didn't want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of slowly but surely inching toward the Olympic Games and using every day as a series of goals to be accomplished.
Apolo Ohno
Islam in its most violent form is already part of Europe just as much as a cancer belongs to the body it attacks.
Amir Taheri
I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.
Abbey Clancy
In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
There are two kinds of investors, be they large or small: those who don't know where the market is headed and those who don't know what they don't know. Then again, there is a third type of investor: the investment professional, who indeed knows he doesn't know, but whose livelihood depends upon appearing to know.
William J. Bernstein
