Evan Davis Quotes

Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

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.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

What we now call 'finance' is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

Fundamentals make the market.

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

I don’t know why the Stock Market does what it does.

I studied finance and was a topper.

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

My adversary is the world of finance.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Predicting the market is always tough.

Mint's business model became, 'We'll go for free, and then we'll find these savings opportunities for you.' You know, better interest rate on your credit cards, when should you consolidate your student loans, when does it mathematically make sense to refinance your mortgage, and Mint figures all that stuff out for you.

The first rule of personal finance is that it's not personal and it's not financial. It's about your ability to make ten changes and not get too depressed over it.

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.

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.

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

The longer I go on, the more I am aware of the power of finance.

What turned me on then, and turns me on even today - and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I'd still be interested in it - is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities.