Quotes from Nick Murray

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

All financial success comes from acting on a plan. A lot of financial failure comes from reacting to the market

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

You have to know your product. You have to advocate wholeheartedly for your product. If you take the king's shilling, you must fight the king's wars.

Nick Murray has been a Mets fan all his life. Before that, he rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Financial services is the most overmanaged and underled industry. This is inexpressibly bad news for the advisors out on the firing line, who hate to be managed and who crave to be led. They need leadership as desperately as they do air and water. And what do they get? Another compliance dictum... from 'management.