Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

- Irene Joliot-Curie

One common denominator of super-affluent alpha men is the conviction, unchallenged every day, that the world revolves around them.

- Tina Brown

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

- Shawn Fanning

Pharrell is a person who has influenced the world. I see myself in him, so I said, 'You're an alpha, and I'm an alpha, and I want to be able to express myself in every way, like you do.'

- Shameik Moore

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

- Sam Worthington

It's a real man who can go out with a woman who's taller than he is. That's an alpha male right there.

- Miranda Hart

There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.

- Louis Navellier

I have this theory that alpha males are actually not alpha males. They're actually very scared - particularly scared of competition from a lot of men.

- Joel Edgerton

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

- Jamie Dornan

My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

- Alastair Campbell

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

- Greg Rucka

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.

- Giorgio Armani

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

- Eugene Fama

I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.

- Desmond Dekker

I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don't hear much about us, but there's a lot more of us out there.

- Christopher Moore

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

- Courtney Love

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

- Brandon Sanderson

Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.

- Barry Ritholtz