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

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.

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.

Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self.

Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly.

Speaking with passion born of your own authentic experience and belief is always persuasive.

So, you're telling me that no matter what, you can't be happy? Well, darling, it's no wonder you're miserable. It's what you want...So then try (to be happy).

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.

I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.