Quotes About Diversification

I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

I'm not trying to climb a ladder - I'm casting a bit of a net.

I see us continuing to expand our contracts just as we've done with Netflix and with Telemundo. We are not just bound to the traditional employers that we've had in the past.

We've always been more gender neutral than any other sport.

I'm always open to trying out new things.

I want to do new things, and I want to do more 200s than 100s.

I want to do something major. I want to continue to push the limits into new things, like media.

I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It really is possible to make films in different ways.

It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.

Nintendo is an entertainment company, but I think we need to broaden the definition of entertainment.

There is no country like the United States, with its diversified industrial base, technology leadership, innovation and strong pressure to build companies to make them grow.

We understand that conglomerates have no future.

The league has changed in so many ways. There are no point guards anymore, there are no centers anymore; it's all positionless basketball.

Very good players have no problem moving to a different country.

When specialization and exchange become generalized, there is a need for something called a universal equivalent.

By looking across the market boundary of theater, Cirque du Soleil also offered new noncircus factors, such as a story line and, with it, intellectual richness, artistic music and dance, and multiple productions. These factors, entirely new creations for the circus industry, are drawn from the alternative live entertainment industry of theater.

Index funds generally buy and hold all the securities within a particular index in a market cap—weighted fashion. Thus while an S&P 500 Index fund would own all five hundred stocks that comprise the index, it would not own an equal amount of each of the five hundred stocks. The largest holding might, for example, be 5 percent of the entire portfolio. There

The safest port in a sea of uncertainty is diversification.

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.   - Robert A. Heinlein

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen.

And if you don't believe me or even Charley, remember that Warren Buffett, perhaps the greatest investor of our time, has opined that all investors would be better off if their portfolio contained a diversified group of index funds.