156 Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.