Beta Quotes - Page 2

• Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

  Warren Buffett

  Looks, Esoteric, Geek

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• Like most Beta Males, he didn't realize that being a good guy was not necessarily an attraction to women.

  Christopher Moore

  Guy, Males, Realizing

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• Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren) That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fighting, Reflection, Wrens

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• If you’re a long-time Thor fan you know there’s kind of a tradition from time to time of somebody else picking up that hammer. Beta Ray Bill was a horse-faced alien guy who picked up the hammer. At one point Thor was a frog. So I think if we can accept Thor as a frog and a horse-faced alien, we should be able to accept a woman being able to pick up that hammer and wield it for a while, which surprisingly we’ve never really seen before.

  Jason Aaron

  Horse, Thinking, Long

  "Marvel Comics Writers Explain Why They're Making Thor a Woman". Interview with Eliana Dockterman, time.com. July 15, 2014.

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• The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.

  Joel Edgerton

  Horse, Video, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To invest successfully, you need not understand beta, efficient markets, modern portfolio theory, option pricing or emerging markets. You may, in fact, be better off knowing nothing of these. That, of course, is not the prevailing view at most business schools, whose finance curriculum tends to be dominated by such subjects. In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses - How to Value a Business, and How to Think About Market Prices.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, School, Thinking

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Alphabet, Harvard

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• Oh, Professor Lyall, are you making a funny? It doesn’t suit you.” The sandy-haired Beta gave Lady Maccon a dour look. “I am exploring new personality avenues.” “Well, stop it.” “Yes, my lady.

  Gail Carriger

  Suits You, Personality, Looks

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• Alexia blinked stupidly at the Beta from around the earl’s upper arm. Her heart was doing crazy things, and she still could not locate her kneecaps. She took a deep breath and put some serious attention into tracking them down.

  Gail Carriger

  Crazy, Heart, Attention

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• Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Cute, Moving, Lists

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• Remember, benchmark performance -- beta -- can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate.

  Paul McCulley

  Remember, Performances, Alphas

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• Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

  Charlie Munger

  Portfolios, Modern, Theory

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• In the financial markets, however, the connection between a marketable security and the underlying business is not as clear-cut. For investors in a marketable security the gain or loss associated with the various outcomes is not totally inherent in the underlying business; it also depends on the price paid, which is established by the marketplace. The view that risk is dependent on both the nature of investments and on their market price is very different from that described by beta.

  Seth Klarman

  Cutting, Loss, Views

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• Take the platypus - that is not a finished product. It is clearly still in beta.

  Stephen Colbert

  Platypus, Stills, Products

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