Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.
That what's most relevant to you is whether and how you're doing something different from what everybody else is doing.
On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.
We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.
I'm a star: SHERIFF BADGE.
The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.
In photography we possess an extraordinary instrument for reproduction. But photography is much more than that. Today it is [a method for bringing optically] some thing entirely new into the world.