Investors Quotes - Page 21

• I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Opportunity, Thinking, Giving

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• The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.

  Evan Bayh

  Country, America, Japan

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• Eponymous brands aren't that popular with analysts and investors now. You can only take an eponymous brand with a living figurehead so far, they argue. What happens when they grow old and die? What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

  Peter York

  Arguing, Analysts, Grows

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• There are no safeguards that can protect the emotional investor from himself.

  J. Paul Getty

  Emotional, Protect

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• The financial capital is being concentrated by corporations, institutional investors, and even our pension funds, and being reinvested in companies that repeat this process because it provides the highest return on that financial capital.

  Paul Hawken

  Corporations, Return, Financial

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• Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

  Andy Grove

  People, Growth, Desire

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

  Peter Thiel

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!

  John Mihaljevic

  Writing, Guy, Investing

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• Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

  Peter Thiel

  Cash Flow, Years, Looks

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

  Alan Patricof

  Running, Entrepreneur, Wish

  "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

  Nick Murray

  Determined, Wealth, Investment

  Nick Murray (1999). “Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth: How You and Your Financial Advisor Can Grow Your Fortune in Stock Mutual Funds”, Nick Murray Company

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• Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I have little doubt that private investors will in fact bear the losses-even if this leads to an outcome that is messier and more costly to society than we would ideally like. Dodd-Frank is very clear in saying that the Federal Reserve and other regulators cannot use their emergency authorities to bail out an individual failing institution

  Jeremy C. Stein

  Loss, Political, Doubt

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• The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Impact, Order, Support

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• While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Jobs, Data, News

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• Startups are painful, stressful and at times demoralizing. You need to be a true believer in the vision of what you are doing. You need to passionate about it and love what you’re doing. If you don’t, there is no way you can sustain the hours, stress and disappointment. There’s no way you’re going to be able to convince investors, customers and most importantly recruit a world-class team if you not building something you think is going to change the world.

  Steve Blank

  Disappointment, Stress, Team

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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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• Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of the tiger. In terms of the general complacency, what we heard over and over from investors and clients and potential clients is, 'yes, yes, there are some excesses, but the government will figure out a way.

  James Chanos

  Government, Australia, Tails

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

  Alan Greenspan

  Business, Past, Derivatives

  "Taking Hard New Look at a Greenspan Legacy" by Peter S. Goodman, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2008.

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• The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Terrorism, Peru, Wells

  Interview with Lucia Newman, www.cnn.com. January 8, 1997.

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• What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Gold, Belief

  "Treasury commitee struggles to hide scorn over Osborne's Help to Buy plan" by Nils Pratley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Jobs, Growth, Faces

  " China Weighs in on S&P Downgrade, Says U.S. Should Live Within its Means [Slideshow]" by Laura Matthews, www.ibtimes.com. August 6, 2011.

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• Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

  Frank Gaffney

  Portfolios, Mutual Fund, Significant

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• If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

  Vito Fossella

  Kids, Eggs, Retail

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• We are each other's seventh largest trading partner, we are the fifth largest investor there and likewise, we have a lot of exchanges between political leaders, businessmen, tourists and school children too.

  S. R. Nathan

  Children, School, Leader

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• My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means keeping Britain open to inward investors, trade and skilled workers. It means cutting red tape which is suffocating growing companies which create jobs.

  Vince Cable

  Jobs, Mean, Cutting

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