“Why should investors sit passively by and take a couple of cents on a the dollar. This is an extraordinarily powerful tactical weapon.”
William Lerach
“Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.”
Ouida Forsyth
“The key swing vote is the passive investors who decide whether to piggyback on what the activists are doing. For every dollar of activist money involved in a campaign, there is usually at least $10 of non-activist money involved.”
Whitney Tilson
“Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority”
Mark Twain
“As investors react to concerns regarding cell phone production, the shares of the passive component makers we follow have been plummeting despite further momentum in the business, higher earnings expectations and record low valuations.”
Jerry Labowitz
“To be passive is to a pushover.”
Hilary Williams
“I am a passive investor. I am not now nor have I been involved in buying and selling properties, negotiating leases or making management decisions.”
Ted Stevens
