Affluent Quote by Kenneth Rogoff

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

— Barry Ritholtz

Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.

— David Ignatius

It's important that we educate Americans about how hedge funds and private equity play completely different roles.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

[A] major source of wealth for many families is financial assets, including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and private pensions. ...the wealthiest 5 percent of…

— Janet Yellen

I think there are probably too many hedge fund managers in the world, as well as active fund managers. The hedge fund industry is…

— Martin Gilbert

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some…

— Barry Ritholtz

I've heard that one-half of the students at elite schools want to go into private equity or hedge funds. They want to keep up…

— Charlie Munger

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more…

— Bill Gates

I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than…

— John Templeton

“Hedge funds have made massive leveraged credit bets, knowing that their upside is billions in fees and their downside is millions in fees.”

— Janet M. Tavakoli

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus…

— Shia LaBeouf

In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave…

— Carl Icahn