Efficient Markets Hypothesis Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment. — Terry Pratchett

Democracy extends the sphere of personal independence; socialism confines it. Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common - equality. But note well the difference. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you'll never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. Even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope for something good to come along. Something to make you feel connected, to make you feel whole, to make you feel loved. — Charlie Kaufman

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes. — Mike Huckabee

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included. — Carrie Chapman Catt

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up. — Niall Ferguson

As for the zone, I always find the zone immediately after I am sure I will never ever find the zone again because it has left me for some other, better writer. — Sarah MacLean

If I want something, I go get it. Anything that I believe will stop me, I question. — Byron Katie

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"Yes."
"By yourself?"
"No, Jonas." Sera turned around and planted her hands on her hips. "I thought I'd call the police and ask them to come along." She mimed holding a phone to her ear. "Hi, my brother and boyfriend have been kidnapped by vampires and taken into the Realm. Can you help me save them?' Oh, but I should probably tell them to beware of the goblins and faeries they may encounter on the way."
Jonas's jaw dropped. "You've seen goblins and faeries? Together? — Jen Meyers

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Although efficient markets people still go around saying there is a "mountain" of evidence supporting their hypothesis, the truth of the matter is that it's a very old mountain that's now eroding rapidly into the sea. — Robert Haugen

Everything goes wrong for a government which is going wrong — Richard Crossman

What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say. — Aristophanes

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. — Michael Eisner

I also knew you wouldn't stop your staring until you learned the cold, hard truth. So, consider yourself warned. I might not be the kind of guy that reads textbooks at the beach," he said, glancing back at my open book, "but I'm smart enough to know girls like you should stay away from guys like me. So stay away. — Nicole Williams

I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday. — Penelope Cruz

Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong. — Seth Klarman