Quotes for All
Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck … Read more
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. Ezra Pound
If we don’t like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds – and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants. Evgeny Morozov
I’m very efficient and the people who work with me always say that – they know when they have a day with me it’s going to be really exhausting because I love to fit as much in as possible. Eva Longoria
The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining … Read more
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. Eugene McCarthy
The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn’t behave as if markets are totally efficient. Eugene Fama
Markets are efficient, but there are different dimensions of risk and those lead to different dimensions of expected returns. That’s what people should be concerned with in their investment decisions and not with whether they can pick stocks, pick winners and losers among the various managers delivering basically the same product. Eugene Fama
In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. Eugene Fama
The Internet is an incredible business tool. First of all, the Internet/the cell phone – the cell phone is just another way to get at it – I think is having a huge impact in Africa most particularly, where it enables people – suddenly, they know crop prices. They can communicate. It makes their lives … Read more