In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.

I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.