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

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.

So what else have they said you can’t do and how many of those have you believed?

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

Had Tibet not fallen away from dharma China could not have invaded.

We must fight for what we want or it will be taken from us.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.