Portfolios Quotes - Page 2

• God never asked us to meet life's pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Winning, Demand, Deeds

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Great Lives: Jesus Bible Companion: The Greatest Life of All”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

  Jeffrey Gundlach

  Risk, Investing, Tricks

  "Gundlach: Stock Market Will Have Trouble Topping Bonds". Interview with Jason Stipp, www.morningstar.com. April 6, 2011.

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• We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Sleep, Investing, Levels

  Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf (2014). “The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing”, p.129, John Wiley & Sons

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• Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

  Warren Buffett

  Funny, Success, Money

  "Rules That Warren Buffett Lives By". Yahoo Finance, February 23, 2010.

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• Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

  Pat Robertson

  Couple, Thinking, Ems

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• Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.

  Robert D. Arnott

  Long, Design, Advice

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• Building a portfolio around index funds isn’t really settling for the average. It’s just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Average, Magic

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• If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

  William O'Neil

  Littles, Firsts, Worst

  William O'Neil, Amy Smith (2013). “How to Make Money in Stocks and Success Stories”, p.188, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and their portfolio should be such that they are willing to ride out the bad as well as the good times.

  Harry Markowitz

  Risk, Good Times, Should

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• I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

  David Lindsay-Abaire

  Writing, Rabbits, Looks

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• Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Games, Apples, Patents

  "Nathan Myhrvold's Patent Investing Returns Are Still Lousy" by Nathan Vardi, www.forbes.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

  Kyle Bass

  Eggs, Zimbabwe, Performers

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• I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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• The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Needs, Company, Feels

  Joel Greenblatt (2010). “The Little Book That Still Beats the Market”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Opportunity, Giving, Needs

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• The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio generally takes three to ten years to play out.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Play, Typical

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• Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

  Charlie Munger

  Modern, Beta, Theory

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• Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, People, Sophisticated

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• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  Sally Schneider

  Book, Cards, Calling

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• I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

  Julianne Malveaux

  Russia, Trump, Knows

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Finding a single investment that will return 20% per year for 40 years tends to happen only in dreamland. In the real world, you uncover an opportunity, and then you compare other opportunities with that. And you only invest in the most attractive opportunities. That's your opportunity cost. That's what you learn in freshman economics. The game hasn't changed at all. That's why Modern Portfolio Theory is so asinine.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Opportunity, Years

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• To say you're going to wiggle your nose and that is going to happen, it won't happen. If you look at major companies who are doing wonderful things, wonderful things and they give their portfolio billions of dollars that they make and they give away $10 million or so, when you start putting the percentages there, what we are doing is significant.

  Paula White

  Giving, Noses, Dollars

  Source: culteducation.com

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• The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the picture, butchered the original script I had written for the late Steve McQueen, and the result, while a massive moneymaker, was lashed by the critics. But like the old joke about Pierre the Bridge Builder, The Cannonball Run is indelibly inscribed on my so-called career portfolio, and few conversations with strangers pass without the subject of the picture arising.

  Brock Yates

  Running, Pride, Bridges

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• We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

  Philip Berrigan

  Military, Raw Materials, World

  Source: law-journals-books.vlex.com

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• What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand there's inflation and growth - it can go higher and lower - and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your total portfolio that gets you balanced.

  Ray Dalio

  Average, Growth, Trying

  Speech at the Corporate Program's CEO Speaker Series, www.cfr.org. September 12, 2012.

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