Jeremy Grantham Quotes - Page 2

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• ...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

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  Regret, Moving, Numbers

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• There is a lot of pain still to be had in the equity markets, particularly aimed at the risky end of the spectrum. We think the fair value on the market is about a third lower in the U.S. . .

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  Pain, Thinking, Financial

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• You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

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  Running, Average, Bmw

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• Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

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  Boring, Disgusting, Equity

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• The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years.

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  Thinking, Years, Wind

  "GRANTHAM: The Great American Shale Boom Is A Dangerous Waste Of Time And Money" by Rob Wile, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

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  Oil, Agriculture, Way

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• I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

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  Jobs, Ideas, Missing

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• Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

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  Thinking, Cells, California

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• The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems.

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  Long, Needs, Locks

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• By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

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  Quaker, Backgrounds, Jeopardy

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• Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don't. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today's earnings.

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  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s a housing bubble and you’ll have a reasonable discussion. Tell an Australian and you’ll have World War III. Been there, done that!

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  War, Optimistic, Thinking

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• I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

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  Thinking, Bags, Paper

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• The language "it's too late" is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

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  Issues, People, Environmental

  "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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• The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

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  Needs, World, Helping

  "Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem?" by Carlo Rotella, www.nytimes.com. August 11, 2011.

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