Quotes About Indexing

If I were in charge of the government, I would index the minimum wage to inflation, so that way, everybody knows what they can count on.

Never index your own book.

I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing is the way. My 'Little Book of Common Sense Investing' says pretty much the same thing.

Don't forget that SlideShare is indexed by Google. Great opportunity to appear in search results.

Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

I have a file of four million jokes... I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it.

Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

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The simple fact is that selecting a mutual fund that will outpace the stock market over the long term is, using Cervantes' wonderful observation, like "looking for a needle in the haystack." So I offer you Bogle's corollary: "Don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack!

Metadata, in its most informal but most prevalent definition, is "data about data.

An access point is a name, word, phrase, or identifier chosen by a cataloger or indexer and placed in a particular field in a record that describes a

Google indexes the world's information.

He smiled again and grabbed my arm. "It so simple," he said. Indexing is the way to go. Invest in great American businesses without paying all the fees of a mutual fund manager and hang on to those companies, and you will win over the long term!

What indexing does is neutralize a large part of the stock market. There's no trading in those stocks, or almost none.

It is my practice to index my Journal entries every other week or so. I find that this is more efficient than indexing them straight away. After some time has passed it is easier to separate the important from the ephemeral.

As in so many human endeavors, the secrets to success are patience, persistence, and minimizing mistakes. In driving, it's having no serious accidents; in tennis, the key is getting the ball back; and in investing, it's indexing—to avoid the expenses and mistakes that do so much harm to so many investors.

This simple investment strategy—indexing—has outperformed all but a handful of the thousands of equity and bond funds that are sold to the public. But you wouldn't know this when Wall Street throws everything but the kitchen sink at you to convince you otherwise. This is the plan we use ourselves for our retirement funds, and this is the plan we urge you to follow, too.

Nobody wants to be passive; indexing is not passive - much more goes into indexing than watching a stock become the next buggy whip.

She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.

Memories were as important as books and almost as important as proper indexing

And then the Internet happened: and the panopticon society, cameras everywhere and augmented-reality tools gobbling up your peripheral vision and greedily indexing your every spoken word on duty.

Much of the market is mindlessly indexed. That means it is all beta. The knowledge is leaching away in the surf of noise and rapid trading.

It removes information from the market when I need more and more...Indexing is a waste heap--information so merged and muffled that it hides knowledge rather than reveals it. All beta, no alpha.