Quotes About Portfolio

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

The typical big winner in the Lynch portfolio (I continue to pick my share of losers, too!) generally takes three to ten years or more to play out.

Here are some pointers from this section: • Understand the nature of the companies you own and the specific reasons for holding the stock. ("It is really going up!" doesn't count.) • By putting your stocks into categories you'll have a better idea of what to expect from them.

Despite Bernie's outspoken attacks on corporate America, the Sanderses became quite comfortable investing in those same companies with their growing investment portfolio.

I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

Look, I think if you've got a niche portfolio or just operating in one country, like the United States, your ability to absorb the volatility is much less.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

I've learned, after my first trade in San Antonio, that you don't put all your eggs in one basket in a place.

In a perfect world you will definitely be in a need to opt for a minimal effort and enhanced portfolio, which you can do by just getting the things done by you about what you have shared and assets which are being exchanged as assets.

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

Burton Malkiel's wonderful book A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

the evidence from more than fifty years of research is conclusive: for a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than like playing poker.

investments are like manure. Left in one pile, it starts to stink. But when you spread it around, it grows things. I bet your financial guy never laid it out like that!

We believe that in times when risk and uncertainty is most prevalent, protecting a portfolio's capital base is far more important that speculation.

Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

I like Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street.' He comes to the same conclusion that I do - that indexing is the way. My 'Little Book of Common Sense Investing' says pretty much the same thing.

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

If Warren Buffett could change his mind about investing in airlines, Mohnish Pabrai could change his mind about investing in autos. Pabrai, who has modeled his investment career and fee structure after Buffett's original partnership, counts General Motors, Fiat Chrysler, and Ferrari in his highly concentrated portfolio.

The collective value of a typical venture capital portfolio will go down before it goes up—the pattern is called the J curve—because the companies that are not going to survive die before the best performers begin to shine and pull the value of the portfolio up with them. That,