Reading: "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing.."

It's a book full of quotes. I'm now trying to have an excerpt on what the quotes inside: -

• Indexing stock market sectors, a strong idea; Betting on stock market sectors, a weak reality.
• Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, & manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.
• Get rid of all your Helpers, then our family will again reap 100 percent of the pie that corporate bakes for u.
• It's dangerous.. .. .. to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experiences.
• Accurately forecasting swings in investor emotions is not possible, But forecasting the long-term economics of investing carries remarkably high odds of success.
• Fund returns are devastated by costs, taxes, and inflation.
• Only three (3) out of the 355 equity funds that started the race in 1970 - 8/10 of 1 percent - have survived and mounted a record of sustained excellence.
• Yesterday's Winners; Tomorrow's Losers.

The following words are my recent vocabularies learned from surrounding newspapers: -

• slump
• slash
• plunge
• crunch
• cut
• kill
• crisis
• axe
• collapse
• melt - thanks to Luke Tsang in RTHK's LTV cafe
• lose
• dire
• fear
• close

Another reader: "Freakonomics", authored by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.

In the chapter "The Ku Klux Klan and Real-Estate Agents", I like their logic on deduce the effects on these terms in real-estate advertisements: -

Five Terms Correlated to a Higher Sale Price

• Granite
• State-of-the-Art
• Corian
• Maple
• Gourmet

Five Terms Correlated to a Lower Sale Price

• Fantastic
• Spacious
• !
• Charming
• Great Neighbourhood

The logics are simple: laterally think the effects on putting those terms. That's quite a great discovery to me on reading other advertisements