The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those. . . amateurs in my fund.
Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.
Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.
If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.
Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.
We ignore outlooks and forecasts. . . we're lousy at it and we admit it. . . everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.
God intended women to be outside as well as men, and they do not know what they are missing when they stay cooped up in the house.
Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.
I feel like I'm just starting though. It's weird, because I like feeling like I'm just beginning. I hope I feel that when I'm 75 or 80.
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.