Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.

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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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You have to be ready for all the games and be at 100 per cent if you want to win in this League.
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If I get in a dark spot, I'll listen to some Adele and cry about it.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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At Camellia Network, we believe if we can create a way of identifying every young person aging out of foster care, defining what they need, and giving a community of supporters a simple and clear way to fulfill those needs, we can produce radically improved outcomes for youth.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.
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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.