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

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.

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.

Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.

As you study computer science you develop this wonderful mental acumen, particularly with relational databases, systems analysis, and artificial intelligence.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

I am not afraid of the darkness. Real death is preferable to a life without living.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.