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 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 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.

I am not obsessing.I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.

Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

The very best kind of Saddam Hussein is the very dead kind.

I have a couple of ideas for shows that I would love to bring to fruition in some way at some point.

Images of resentment and revenge only have us spending the precious moments of our lives imagining the 'other' as both dangerous and important!

When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.

It's like running away to join the circus, everyone wants to do it when they're young but then you grow up and get a proper job. But somebody's got to do it or you wouldn't have the circus.

I was a fireman. I lived in the fire sta­tion for about a year. The pay wasn't so good. It was kind of like being in the army, or what I imagine that would be like.

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet.