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.

My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury.

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

You never worry about the last laugh if you've been laughing the whole time

In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

We can build a better product than Linux.

I know I will die in a car crash.

A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.

I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth.