Quotes About Timing

The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead.

A man should know when it is time to step aside.

Stache's attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

However, in God's timing, He does sovereignly choose to bring a husband and wife together for them to accomplish together what they couldn't have accomplished apart.

can't fix the roof when it's raining, and when the sun comes out the roof don't leak no more. The

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

Any fool can raise an army, but you start running into trouble around suppertime.

Capital markets provide three tools for investors to employ in generating investment returns: asset allocation, market timing, and security selection.

Establishing a coherent investment program begins with understanding the relative importance of asset allocation, market timing, and security selection.

Passive market timing consists of inadvertent deviations from long-term targets caused by the action of market forces on the values of a portfolio's various asset classes. Whether caused by an investor's active decision or an investor's passive indifference, market-timing returns result from deviations between hypothetical target portfolio returns and actual portfolio asset class returns.

Market timing fails to make an important contribution to institutional portfolio results, because investors quite sensibly show reasonable constancy in holdings of various asset types.

During the period surrounding the 1987 stock market collapse endowment portfolios first exhibited aspects of disciplined rebalancing in the run up before the crash and then showed signs of perverse market timing in the carnage of the crash.

Investment returns stem from decisions regarding three tools of portfolio management: asset allocation, market timing, and security selection.

almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Watch out he's winding the watch of his wit, by and by it will strike.

Better once than never, for never too late.

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...

They stumble that run fast.

Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

The crow signs as sweetly as the lark when no one's paying attention to them, and I think that if the nightingale sang during the day while all the geese were cackling, people would think it sounded no better than a wren. So many things are made perfect and as they should be by good timing! But quiet. Look how the moon won't be awakened. It must be sleeping with  [Endymion

we must obey the time.

He came early, unwisely as, had he come later, there would have been a better audience to watch his arrival; however, to his untutored mind perhaps this was a matter of little importance.