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

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Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 13, Counterattack - The Second Wave, p. 129, 1999.

Robert Haugen

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“The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.”
“I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.”
“We fail when we give up too soon.”
“After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.”
“I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.”
“Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.”
“To show too much joy in a place such as this would be unseemly but, as he padded toward her, his tail was extended in a manner which would make wagging possible should all go as expected.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.126, Pan Macmillan
“And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream”

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