Quotes About Selection

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

Security selection may provide substantial excess returns to skilled investors, but those excess returns come directly from the pockets of other players who suffer poor relative returns. When aggregating the returns for all actively managed portfolios, the combined results inevitably mimic the market, less a discount equal to the amount paid to play the game. For the investment community as a whole, security selection plays a return-reducing role in investment performance.

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

How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?

Marathe shrugged. 'Us, we will force nothing on U.S.A. persons in their warm homes. We will make only available. Entertainment. There will be then some choosing, to partake or choose not to.

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow.

Cuando las manzanas están podridas, es difícil escoger.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borgia family for people they had a particular grudge against, so I chose them.

The rest is drivel or piffle—take your choice. I think I prefer piffle.

Let's banish these misleaders from among us, and when we do, we shouldn't fill their places from our Persian peerage alone. As our journey continues, we're going to be joined by many races of men. Just as we choose our horses from the best stocks, not limiting ourselves to our national breed, we should choose the best men to join us in the work of command, regardless of their country or color." A

an incomplete listing of anything reveals that a selection has been made, and any act of selection is of course political.

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and years in prison, but the books or the wines of the season.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.

Words know that there is always the right word and no other word will do.

Choice is a matter of selection. Decision is a matter of direction.

Not everybody can enter an open door. Even the gates of heaven have limited slots during the open season.

like the wing of the chaffinch, both the truth and authority have to undergo natural selection. The new meansof persuasion are to be as smoothly and stylistically designed as a 48-track digital tape studio, quiet as a Rolls, appealing as a glamorous face. From hot systems of social control, destructive of the environment, wasteful of sensitive and limited power systems, the progress is towards elegant and entertaining designer-systems of pressure and influence.

Freedom means choosing your burden.

Asses prefer garbage to gold.

Give me one man from among ten thousands, if he be the best.