156 Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.

The market never met a tax cut it didn't like and it would not be happy with a complete roll back, ... but if the economic recovery seems to be full-throated, the market might be willing to accept the rolling back of select tax cuts as a means of reducing the deficit, making John Edwards and John Kerry more appealing.

The low-hanging fruit has been picked on a lot of the small caps already, and when the low-hanging fruit has been picked, you have to be more defensive.

Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.