Quotes About Quant

Life is simple, as simple as Quant.

I have been on a diet since 1962.

Fair value and change are therefore two sides of the same coin; the more ways in which a security can lose value from a future market move, the less it should rationally be worth today, and hence the mantra: more risk, more return. This difference between the quant's view of value as an average versus the trader's need to worry about any change makes this kind of professional cross-communication difficult. Tour

A good quant must be a mixture, too—part trader, part salesperson, part programmer, and part mathematician.

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.