The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.
These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I’d just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?
From a wine critic’s perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That’s appalling.
My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education. We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
The achievement of high universal literacy is the key to all other fundamental improvements in American education.
I’m sure that if Plato hadn’t been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.
You don’t hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?
You can be racist against people that eat little red apples.
Personally I don’t think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn’t.
Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit ‘cancel’ on your computer. But, the fact is it’s canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.
I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
We should never lose sight of the underlying essence of a market-a place where buyers and sellers come together. Every other feature-whether crafted by tradition or technology-exists only to serve that primary purpose.
George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It’s quite possible he never read a prospectus.
Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.