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Quotes About Index

Then, having nothing better to do, I leafed through the index and amused myself, in a very low-key way, by looking for ridiculous names, of which Australia has a respectable plenitude. I am thus able to report that the following are all real places: Wee Waa, Poowong, Burrumbuttock, Suggan Buggan, Boomahnoomoonah, Waaia, Mullumbimby, Ewlyamartup, Jiggalong, and the supremely satisfying Tittybong.
~ Bill Bryson
Once again I took my Index and Journals to the Fifth Northern Hall and sat down opposite the Statue of the Gorilla. May his Strength and Resolution give me courage!
~ Susanna Clarke
Here is the crux of the strategy: Instead of hiring an expert, or spending a lot of time trying to decide which stocks or actively managed funds are likely to be top performers, just invest in index funds and forget about it!
~ Taylor Larimore
Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and investor of legendary repute: Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) delivered by the great majority of investment professionals.
~ Taylor Larimore
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index.
~ Taylor Larimore
Index investing outperforms active management year after year.
~ Jim Rogers
Les Français adorent donner, en levant un index vertueux, des leçons de morale au monde
~ Franz-Olivier Giesbert
the sentence in an appellate brief that read, "In the index to this brief, the Court will find an extensive copulation of authorities on the subject.
~ Steven D. Stark
ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.
~ Adam Lashinsky
Percentage of Actively Managed Mutual Funds Outperformed by the S&P 500 Index (Periods through June 30, 2012) Sources: Lipper and The Vanguard Group.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
Thus, purchasing a fund holding all the stocks in a broad-based index will produce a portfolio that can be expected to do as well as any managed by professional security analysts.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
By buying a share in a "total market" index fund, you acquire an ownership share in all the major businesses in the economy. Index funds eliminate the anxiety and expense of trying to predict which individual stocks, bonds, or mutual funds will beat the market.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
The best choice for your equity investments is a fund indexed to the total world stock market. If you are truly uncomfortable investing in "foreign" stocks, you could choose a domestic total stock market fund. We recommend that you be diversified internationally because the United States represents less than half of the world's economic activity and stock market capitalization. For your bonds, choose a total U.S. bond market index fund.
~ Burton G. Malkiel
As an investor, you have one powerful way to keep from getting distressed by devilish Mr. Market: Ignore him. Just buy and hold one of the broad-based index funds that
~ Burton G. Malkiel
We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' Precisely,' said a passing bush.
~ Terry Pratchett
For Ephrem, the one who makes a loan to God through almsgiving is not simply doing a human work—he is making a public testimony to his faith. On this view, alms are not so much a human work as they are an index of one's underlying faith.
~ Gary A Anderson
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
~ Lafcadio Hearn
Of course one feel san done knows what one feel sand at the same time is a master of feeling, not slave; feeling is the archive upon which we draw, but the archive has doors or perhaps it has drawers, it's got storage, an index, the metaphor for the archive of feelings has been lost on Sarah but she gets the idea. You're fucked if it isn't in order.
~ Susan Choi
I have no special knowledge of markets, so I invest solely in low-expense index funds, plus some cryptocurrencies.
~ James Holzhauer
3. CHECK THE INDEX
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Most of our assumptions about the way women have always thought about "beauty" date from no earlier than the 1830s, when the cult of domesticity was first consolidated and the beauty index invented.
~ Naomi Wolf
I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.
~ Frank Peretti
A paperback book was wrapped around Barney's massive index finger as he held his place.
~ Thomas Harris
Never pay attention to any price-weighted index.
~ Kenneth L. Fisher