Quotes About Equity

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

Being totally inclusive is essential for the outcome to possess any true value

We must have the attitude that every child in America - regardless of where they're raised or how they're born - can learn.

They're all special, but no one gets special treatment.

They're all special, but no one gets special treatment. It wouldn't be fair to the others.

Fair doesn't come into {the law.}

We never minded paying a fair price, but overpaying was anathema to us—and it should be to you.

Well-constructed academic studies confirm the theoretical premise. Robert Arnott's 2000 examination of U.S. equity mutual-fund returns shows a twenty-year pre-tax deficit of 2.1 percent per year relative to the result achieved by investors in Vanguard's 500 Index Fund. Nearly 80 percent of actively managed funds failed to reach Vanguard's market-mimicking return.

Three basic investment principles inform asset-allocation decisions in well-constructed portfolios. First, long-term investors build portfolios with a pronounced equity bias. Second, careful investors fashion portfolios with substantial diversification. Third, sensible investors create portfolios with concern for tax considerations. The principles of equity orientation, diversification, and tax sensitivity find support both in common sense and academic theory.

Junk-bond investors cannot win. When fundamentals improve, stock returns dominate bond returns. When rates decline, noncallable bonds provide superior risk-adjusted returns. When fundamentals deteriorate, junk-bond investors fall along with equity investors.

Because equity owners get paid after corporations satisfy all other claimants, equity ownership represents a residual interest. As such, stockholders occupy a riskier position than, say, corporate lenders who enjoy a superior position in a company's capital structure.

Within the realm of active equity management, investors inhabit a perverse world where higher fees correspond to lower returns. In the broader universe that includes active and passive management, index funds exhibit a dramatic cost advantage over their actively managed counterparts. Well-informed investors recognize that fund fees matter.

Market studies focusing only on returns for securities in the United States miss important information. Recent academic work by Will Goetzmann and Philippe Jorion on investor experience in other countries reduces confidence in the long-run superiority of equity investing.

Following the evidence, I concluded that individuals fare best by constructing equity-oriented, broadly diversified portfolios without the active management component. Instead of pursuing ephemeral promises of market-beating strategies, individuals benefit from adopting the ironclad reality of market-mimicking portfolios managed by not-for-profit investment organizations. The

the ideas of ravacious herds of feral domesticated housepets and oversized insects not only taking over the abandoned homes of relocated Americans but actually setting up house and keeping them in model repair and impressive equity

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

Omittance is no quittance.

Tedn't fair. Tedn't just. Tedn't British.

do you not take him to be just who commits no manner of injustice? It

essential desire for equity and the ability to live freely without the fear of white terrorism literally trumps everything, as former first lady Michelle Obama expresses in Becoming.

We cannot construct equality. We can create fairness.

Too much rights do not make everybody right.