Quotes About Fama

As Virgil tells us in The Aeneid, fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum. There is no evil swifter than a rumor.

Pero la fama también tenía su precio. No paraban de dar entrevistas y de ser reclamados en todas partes y Pierre, disminuido por la enfermedad, se sentía angustiado por el tiempo que eso les robaba del trabajo.

I buy the market through index funds. Since I'm getting older, I buy TIPS.

la Musa excitó al aedo a que celebrase la gloria de los guerreros con un cantar cuya fama llegaba entonces al anchuroso cielo: la disputa de Odiseo y del Pelida Aquileo

In sum, economists (and those who listened to them) became overconfident in their preferred models of the moment: markets are efficient, financial innovation improves the risk-return trade-off, self-regulation works best, and government intervention is ineffective and harmful. They forgot about the other models. There was too much Fama, too little Shiller. The economics of the profession may have been fine, but evidently there was trouble with its psychology and sociology.