My career in academic research has not been involved with active management of securities. I've tried to understand risk-and-return relationships; also the pricing of derivative securities.

Every side of a coin has another side.

Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.

All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

If you want to keep on getting what you are getting, Keep on doing what you are doing".

Been there, done that. I’m sure I’ve got a T-shirt somewhere to prove it.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.

Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do.

I was trying to break out of the suburbs, and when I did break out, I don't think I took my whole self with me - I think I played a role of being too cool and hip.

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.