Haugen Quotes & Sayings

In real-world Finance, they don't pay for elegance. They pay for power - predictive power. — Robert Haugen

As Dr. Hamid Rashid, the senior Bangladeshi economist and a leader of the UNDP's Legal Empowerment of the Poor program, has flatly stated: "With limited and insecure land rights, it is difficult, if not impossible, for the poor to overcome poverty."80 And once again, it is the women in the developing world who are most devastated by the lawless chaos of insecure property rights. In the absence of clear and documented legal rights to property, there are two other social forces that step into the vacuum and settle who gets what: 1) brute force, and 2) traditional cultural norms. And under both influences women generally lose - and brutally so. — Gary A. Haugen

We must start talking differently about poverty
and start doing something differently. — Gary Haugen

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away. — Gary Haugen

The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns. — Robert Haugen

Nothing happens just because we are aware of modern day slavery, but nothing will ever happen until we are. — Gary Haugen

We can't hear over that fucking techno crap you're — Blake Haugen

The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same direction - our legs and lungs of endurance; And we need sturdy stores of joy. — Gary Haugen

She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair" (44). — Gary A. Haugen

A comprehensive list of factors brings predictive stability and predictive stability and predictive power. — Robert Haugen

Behaviorists tell us that we tend to overweight and overreact to the most recently received information. If we do, we will find that the information that we thought was so important becomes tempered, and reduced in significance, by new and related information that follows. — Robert Haugen

When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time. — Gary Haugen

There is an awesome God of justice who is ready to move in power if you move in obedience, — Gary Haugen

Less volatile stocks tend to have negative abnormal profits; more volatile stocks tend to have positive abnormal profits. — Robert Haugen

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide — Gary Haugen

Leaders lead out of who they are on the inside. — Gary Haugen

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance. — Robert Haugen

God does not give His people a ministry for which He does not give them the power to do it. — Gary Haugen

We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction — Gary Haugen

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

The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low. — Robert Haugen

Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer? — Gary Haugen

God has a plan to help bring justice to the world - and his plan is us. — Gary Haugen

The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect. — Gary Haugen

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal - so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person. — Gary A. Haugen

When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game. — Robert Haugen

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people. — Gary Haugen

Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery, — Gary Haugen

Violence in the developing world is like grief in the developed world - it's everywhere, but we just don't see it. — Gary A. Haugen

CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined. — Robert Haugen

If you're wrestling with some sort of decision, reflect for a moment and ask yourself, Am I being brave, or am I being safe? In the end, it depends on whether we think God can be trusted. — Gary Haugen

If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market. — Robert Haugen

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure. — Gary Haugen

Jesus wants to give you five things: extravagant compassion, moral clarity, sacrificial courage, persevering hope, and refreshing joy, — Gary Haugen

Egyptians developed an accurate calendar with 365 days in a year. In — Peter Haugen

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished. — Gary Haugen

In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition program. You specify the way you want your portfolio to look, and then you assemble the profile piece by piece by bringing together companies that make their own individual contributions to the desired character. — Robert Haugen

Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul. — Gary Haugen

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us. — Gary Haugen

One would hope that if the world woke up to such a reality, it would swiftly acknowledge and respond to the disaster - but tragically, the world has neither woken up to the reality nor responded in a way that offers meaningful hope for the poor. It has mostly said and done nothing. And as we shall see, the failure to respond to such a basic need - to prioritize criminal justice systems that can protect poor people from common violence - has had a devastating impact on two great struggles that made heroic progress in the last century but have stalled out for the poorest in the twenty-first century: namely, the struggle to end severe poverty and the fight to secure the most basic human rights. — Gary A. Haugen

Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion ... they need our legs & lungs of endurance. — Gary Haugen