"... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you can't - and neither can the legions of advisers and publications that claim they can. That's why building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for average. It's just refusing to believe in magic."

-- Bethany McLean

#Believe Quotes #Past Quotes #Average Quotes

“A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.”
“As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.”
“If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.”
“I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.”
“It rolls in grandeur lone-- The stream of Time; And on its shores lie strown The wrecks of every clime.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1864). “Mount Vernon, and other poems ... Second edition”, p.21
“I thought that unless people know me, they wouldn't find me funny.”
“Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.”
“I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.”

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