Quotes by Andrew Tobias

About Andrew Tobias:

Andrew Tobias is an American journalist, author, and columnist. His main body of work is on investment, but he has also written on politics, insurance, and other topics. Since 1999, he has been the treasurer of the Democratic National Committee.
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In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it, that blacks are inherently inferior to whites or that homosexuals are all, by definition, sick. So what? Even if either condition truly is in...

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The best thing I have are 5 percent bonds from 1780, denominated from $1 to $20. As far as I can tell, they are obligations from the United States of America, so I should be able to walk down to the Federal Reserve and redeem the uncanceled ones. Wit...

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I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

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Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

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I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

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One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

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You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

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Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

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But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

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It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

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There's no such thing as altruism.

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There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains)...

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Tobias
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • BornApril 20, 1947
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer