Quotes About Diversification

The time to develop a multiple income source strategy is not when you run out of money. Then it will be too late.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified, including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.

How does the industry seek to master the risks? Through mathematics. The common-sense version of what sophisticated investors do is diversification, a technique so old it's mentioned in the Talmud, where the strategy advocated is to have a third of your assets in trade, a third in cash and a third in land.

As I see it, the future of investing belongs to those who are flexible in their thinking and capable of moving easily from one segment of the market to another.

Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.

As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

I have a real estate development company. I have investments in all sorts of things, and I dabble all over the place.

There's no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.

For me, I love doing different things with real estate.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.

If we think about how long Google spent searching - I think they came around in '98? And, OK, Gmail came in 2004, but it was literally built by one engineer as a 20%-time project. It was probably 10 years before Google started diversifying.

We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

I think television's amazing, and I'm going to do more of it. I love it. I think it's a great place to be, but I'm still going to keep doing movies too.

I've got a friend who's a builder, a friend in marketing, a friend who does furniture removals... It's good to stay grounded like that.

It is good for football that the game grows in new areas of the world.

I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.

I couldn't even think about elite gymnastics for a while. It was definitely good for me to try something different.

you don't want a lot of assets in one LLC (or LP). An LLC that holds ten properties is a much bigger target than ten LLCs each holding one property. In the first case, a fall at one property exposes the other nine properties to attack.

For diversification to work as a salve for the pains of loss, you must avoid looking at losses or gains in isolation.

Our advice? Put no more than 10 percent of your nest egg into stocks of individual corporations. The rest should be spread out over other kinds of investments.

The problem in business isn't that women are overlooked because they are women, it's that most people subconsciously look to employ a mini-me. It's not a gender issue, it's about diversification full stop. It's hard to change that mindset and it hits women particularly hard because men historically have always been the recruiters.

People were always saying how modern players need to be able to play in two or three positions, and those words stuck in my head. I think that I can do just that.