Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

When things go wrong on a macroeconomic level, it's almost always this way. People find someone to blame, whether it's blacks, whites, Christians, Jews, Muslims-whoever.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half of your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of it.

If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned.

Without giving specific names, most of the significant American banks, the larger banks, are bankrupt, totally bankrupt.

You don't train for only the 100-meter dash and you don't practice only the excerpts. When I prepared for auditions, I spent most of my time each day on scales and exercises to be my best in basic musicianship, and only a half-hour or so on the actual excerpts I'd be playing.