You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.