Portfolios Quotes

• Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

  Chase Jarvis

  Promise

  FaceBook post by Chase Jarvis from Oct 18, 2010

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• A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Careers, Gains

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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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• 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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• The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

  Warren Buffett

  Risk, Rewards, Greater

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.231, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Young

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opinion, Recommendations, Asks

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.389, Random House

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• 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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• I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

  Guy Spier

  Trying, Manage

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• Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

  Mario

  Sleep, Risk, Individual

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, People, Sophisticated

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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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• 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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