To beat the market youll have to invest serious bucks to dig up information no one else has yet. – Merton Miller
I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldnt see any. – Merton Miller
What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from. – Merton Miller
My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury. – Merton Miller
People just want to hear some common sense… and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government – I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee – not to mention the diplomatic international experience. – Carol Moseley Braun
Well, first let me say that I think health care reform is important. It has to be a priority. And our system is broken. The Finance Committee bill is the best effort yet, due in large measure to the efforts of my colleague, Olympia Snowe, but its not there yet. It falls short. – Susan Collins
Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you dont become efficient, you dont run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington. – Steve Daines
My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelts backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. – Mike Wallace