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'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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I've been around the bend in corporations.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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People are used to dealing with risk. You are told if you smoke, you are at higher risk of lung cancer. And I think people are able to also understand, when they are told they are a carrier for a genetic disease, that is not a risk to them personally but something that they could pass on to children.
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If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
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The public in many countries is understandably concerned by the commitment of substantial government resources to aid the financial industry when other industries receive little or no assistance. This disparate treatment, unappealing as it is, appears unavoidable.
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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.