As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.

To beat the market you'll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it and get it incorporated into prices.

Diversification is your buddy.

Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Books should not be loved selfishly. Neither books nor anything else, in fact.

The long sadness of winter was finally in retreat.

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.

Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.