Books Quote by Audrey Strauss

I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading.

— Terry Pratchett

The investors who generate big returns over five years, the guys they write books about, are supposed to keep winning, right? Well, they don't.

— Eugene Fama

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

— Harry Browne

As alleged, David Hu directed a multimillion-dollar, years-long scheme to defraud investors. Putting profit ahead of his fiduciary duties, Hu allegedly mismarked millions of…

— Audrey Strauss

Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they…

— Barry Ritholtz

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

— Kevin Rose

It seems to me - particularly for these retirement-plan investors, the vast majority of whom are not particularly financially sophisticated - by far the…

— John C. Bogle

It is inconceivable that anyone will divulge a truly effective get-rich scheme for the price of a book. There is ample opportunity to use…

— Victor Niederhoffer

Investors have very short memories

— Roman Abramovich

“stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them.”

— John Wiley and Sons

“Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus…

— Walter Kaufmann