Portfolios Quotes

• 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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• I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Unique, Priorities In Life

  "Inside 'Cosmos': Q&A with Host Neil deGrasse Tyson". Interview with Megan Gannon, www.space.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

  William J. Bernstein

  Essence, Numbers, Use

  "Smart Advice for the HuffPost Investor" by Dan Solin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2007.

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• Balancing our energy portfolio is a real chance to reduce energy bills, revitalize rural America, slow global warming and strengthen our energy security.

  Tom Udall

  Real, America, Energy

  "A Real Chance for Renewable Energy" by Sen. Tom Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2011.

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• One day I'd like to go to the Moon and look at the planet Earth and say, 'Wow, there's part of my portfolio.'

  Paul Orfalea

  Moon, One Day, Looks

  "The One Percent". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

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

  Guy Spier

  Trying, Manage

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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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• 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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• Experience conclusively shows that index-fund buyers are likely to obtain results exceeding those of the typical fund manager, whose large advisory fees and substantial portfolio turnover tend to reduce investment yields. Many people will find the guarantee of playing the stock-market game at par every round a very attractive one. The index fund is a sensible, serviceable method for obtaining the market's rate of return with absolutely no effort and minimal expense.

  Burton Malkiel

  Yield, Games, People

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• I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

  David Axelrod

  Broads

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• In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition program. You specify the way you want your portfolio to look, and then you assemble the profile piece by piece by bringing together companies that make their own individual contributions to the desired character.

  Robert Haugen

  Character, Heaven, Together

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, Chapter 14, The Roads to Heaven and Hell, p. 139, 1999.

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• Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

  Benjamin Graham

  Issues, Investing, Should

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• Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

  Benjamin Graham

  Issues, Quality, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.130, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.

  John C. Bogle

  Forever, Typical, Return

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• Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

  David F. Swensen

  Independent, Eye, Acceptance

  David F. Swensen (2009). “Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment, Fully Revised and Updated”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

  Kenneth Fisher

  Growth, Done, Glamorous

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• If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Cutting, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

  Kenneth Fisher

  Different, Return, Type

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• 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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• You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

  Al Gore

  Climate, Needs, Guarantees

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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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• The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in the global mobile market by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions.

  Brian Krzanich

  Communication, Commitment, Technology

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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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