But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

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.

Options abound world over, Options to choose from and be the best.

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.

Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy.

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.