Burton Malkiel Quotes
We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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For some reason, people imagine that dramatic things happen to people who don't look beautiful.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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From the kids on the neighborhood Stag Athletic Club baseball team on the Hill. We went to a movie one afternoon, and there was one of those yogi characters in the picture. Coming out of the joint, one of the kids looked at me, started laughing, and said: 'Hey, Berra walks just like that yogi in the movie.' I've been Yogi ever since.
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After a conflict, women are not only more likely to turn to other womenfriends for support, but are nine times more likely to be with their children should conflict become divorce.
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Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.
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When startups succeed, they do so against all odds. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources. By definition, everyone else is bigger, further along, and more established than you. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There are no shortcuts.
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The USO tours I've been part of have definitely been the highlight of my career and my life.
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I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.
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It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.
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I'd love to direct more.
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After I've knitted for a while, I feel like I just woke up from a nap. And what's awesome is that then you have a product! You have something you made with your hands!
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A Bar Mitzvah is the time in his life when a Jewish boy realizes he has a better chance of owning a team than playing for one.
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.
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I don't believe in regime change, certainly not in the Middle East.
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Think about it: if you were running a multi-million dollar company, and your database of customer information was stolen, would you want to tell your clients? No. Most companies did not until the laws required them to. It's in the best interest of organisations - when they're attacked and information is stolen - to tell nobody.
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Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
