Andrew Lo Quotes & Sayings

“Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.”

“Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.”

“My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'”

“Many of us like to think of financial economics as a science, but complex events like the financial crisis suggest that this conceit may be more wishful thinking than reality.”

“While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.”

“What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.”

“During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes in behavior.”

“It's important to understand how people perceive risk, and how that translates into investment behavior.”

“The United States has the most sophisticated financial markets in the world, which does not leave much room to maneuver. But it also offers investors the greatest access to information and the ability to execute trades quickly and efficiently. So it is a mixed bag of opportunity.”

“Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.”