Skip to content

When I started worrying about stocks, it was the late 1930s and early 1940s and it didn't seem like a good way to make money then, either.

— Merton Miller Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers (1999)

Another quote →

Topics

Money

More quotes by Merton Miller

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers (1999)

Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't.

Investment Gurus: A Road Map to Wealth from the World's Best Money Managers (1999)

All Merton Miller quotes →

You may also like

Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Merton Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.