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Eugene Fama
"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." --
Source : "A Father of Modern Finance" by Rebecca Rolfes, www.chicagobooth.edu. 2013.
Eugene Fama
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“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
“As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.”
“My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending.”
“People have told me to have sex when i feel the desire to, but right now i have no desire to pull my pants down in front of a girl.”
“Sedimentation in the past has often been very rapid indeed and very spasmodic. This may be called the "Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of the Stratigraphical Record."”
“If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.”
“Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.”
Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. January 17, 2003.
“I'm a woofer, not a tweeter; a writer, not a telegrapher; an essayist, not an aphorist.”