Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

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.

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.

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.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Winding up unfinished business with another person can give you a great burst of positive energy.

[10 Things I Hate About You] is a smart and grounded film about a real, well-rounded girl. I think the only other teen film that came close to getting that right was Can't Hardly Wait.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.

I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side. I've felt ugly and insecure.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth.