Barry Ritholtz Quotes
Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.
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But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Wickets are like wives. You never know what to expect from them.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I'm such a believer in going to set, even when you're not working, because I think the best things to be learned, you don't necessarily get from your own scene or from someone speaking to you and telling you advice. I think it's all about watching and just taking it all in. It's not even when the cameras are rolling, necessarily.
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We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
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If it doesn't sell, it isn't creative.
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Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
