Investors Quotes - Page 25

• I think it could have real changing effects on the financial markets of our country, it could cause investors to think more about real rates of return and that in turn could spawn new kinds of products.

  Robert Rubin

  Country, Real, Thinking

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• There used to be this guy called Vinny who worked on the floor of the stock exchange, said one big investor who had observed the market for a long time. After the markets closed Vinny would get into his Cadillac and drive out to his big house in Long Island. Now there is the guy called Vladimir who gets into his jet and flies to his estate in Aspen for the weekend. I used to worry a little about Vinny. Now I worry a lot about Vladimir

  Michael Lewis

  Weekend, Islands, Long

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Kids, Angel, Thinking

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• An outstanding addition to the volumes written on value investing. Not only do the authors offer their own valuable insights but they have provided in one publication invaluable insights from some of the most accomplished professionals in the investment business. I would call this publication a must-read for any serious investor.

  Leon G. Cooperman

  Investing, Serious, Investment

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• I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

  Jonathan Clements

  Wall, Worst Nightmares, Fans

  Jonathan Clements (2003). “You've Lost It, Now What?: How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• The best investor is your customer.

  Esther Dyson

  Customers

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• Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

  Lucas Papademos

  Justice, Delay, Speed

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• Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

  Peter Lynch

  Trying, Lost, More Money

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• Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

  David Dreman

  Investing, Ships, Strategy

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• A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

  Harry Markowitz

  Business, Opportunity, Long

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• You are in the field to defend the public interest, the financial truth for investors and the funds that should support the widow and the orphan.

  Clarence W. Barron

  Support, Widows, Fields

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• The most important thing you can have is a good strategic asset allocation mix. So, what the investor needs to do is have a balanced, structured portfolio – a portfolio that does well in different environments…. we don't know that we're going to win. We have to have diversified bets.

  Ray Dalio

  Winning, Important, Doe

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• Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

  Natalie Massenet

  Opportunity, Marketing, First Impression

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• The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Coins, Tossers

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.465, Penguin

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• Near the top of the market, investors are extraordinarily optimistic because they've seen mostly higher prices for a year or two. The sell-offs witnessed during that span were usually brief. Even when they were severe, the market bounced back quickly and always rose to loftier levels. At the top, optimism is king, speculation is running wild, stocks carry high price/earnings ratios, and liquidity has evaporated. A small rise in interest rates can easily be the catalyst for triggering a bear market at that point.

  Martin Zweig

  Running, Kings, Optimistic

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• There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  "The Age of Global Markets and the Global Investor". Presentation at 25th International SFOA Bürgenstock Conference, 2004.

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• Full service brokers, in this day and age of low cost mutual funds and discount brokers, are really nothing more than machines for ripping off retail investors.

  Joel Spolsky

  Age, Retail, Cost

  "Wall Street Survival 101". www.joelonsoftware.com. May 20, 2005.

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• "Average" isn't so hot at the race track given those steep track takes. "Average" is pretty decent for stocks, something like 6 percent above the inflation rate. For a buy-and -hold investor, commissions and taxes are small.

  William Poundstone

  Race, Average, Track

  "Fortune's Formula". Part Three, Arbitrage, This Is Not the Time To Buy Stocks, p. 134. Book by William Poundstone, 2005.

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• The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

  William Poundstone

  Law, Numbers, Misunderstood

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I would suggest to my honourable Friend that the foreign investor is at least as discouraged by high national debt for that, as all example shows, is the surest precursor of high taxation.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Example, Taxation, Debt

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 213), March 24, 1966.

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• Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

  B. W. Powe

  Country, Fire, Greed

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by Bruce W. Powe, 2006.

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• The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides little direct debt relief to borrowers and financially stressed households and that will come at a very high cost to the US taxpayer. And the plan does nothing to resolve the severe stress in money markets and interbank markets that are now close to a systemic meltdown.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Stress, Littles, Bankers

  "Not so much bail-out as rip-off". www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

  Paul Begala

  Payroll Tax, People, Want

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• It's a fact: stock investors sometimes lose money on their way to wealth. Get over it.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Way, Facts, Sometimes

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