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"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 couldn't see any."
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"You have to see every unit of currency that passes through your hands as a seed to your financial future."
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"What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions."

"Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer."

"My expertise was in public finance, particularly corporate taxation, since I had worked at the US Treasury."

"I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller."

"I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in."

"Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices."

"Most people might just as well buy a share of the whole market, which pools all the information, than delude themselves into thinking they know something the market doesn't."
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