Quotes of the Day

Even slightly beating the index year after year is incredibly difficult. Only a handful of investors have been able to modestly beat it over time. Doing so makes them superstars. That's why Warren Buffett, Michael Price and Peter Lynch are household names. [2016] - J L Collins

One of the cancer-fighting innovations is CAR T-cell therapy, in which doctors remove immune system cells from a patient's blood and add a gene that allows the cells to bind to proteins on the patient's tumor. Another immuno-oncology approach, checkpoint blockade therapy, quashes the ability of cancerous cells to evade detection by our immune system. CAR-T therapy and checkpoint inhibition are less than a decade old. DNA-sequencing technology has also offered us an opportunity to understand the evolution of a specific patient's cancer. [2019] - David A. Sinclair

When meeting people in highly professional or upscale situations, hit them with a whole sentence that includes a noun and a verb. Adjectives optional. [2009] - Leil Lowndes

As more and more time is spent on the negotiations, it becomes increasingly hard for the seller to dump the deal. If all the extras or problems are brought out at the beginning, it's so easy for the seller to just say "No!" The more time invested in a deal, the more each party has to lose if it doesn't go through. Any time spent considering the deal always increases the chances of getting the other party to say, "Yes!" [2006] - Robert Irwin

Smart investors add money to their investments every month. They rebalance once a year. [2017] - Andrew Hallam