Quotes About Diversification

The first thing I would say is always bet less than 5 percent of your money on any one idea.

Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction—creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. Always ask yourself, what can I improve? Who else can I talk to? Where else can I look?

The same principle held in black universities, where students demanded more and more black teachers. White professors who had virtually dedicated their lives and their academic careers as historians, anthropologists, sociologists, to the problems of racism and its cures, thinking they did this for the good of the oppressed victims of racism (and often suffering social and academic insults as a result), were asked to leave schools in favor of black teachers. Some of them turned very bitter.

Three simple rules - pay less, diversify more and be contrarian - will serve almost everyone well.

The difference between success and failure is not which stock you buy or which piece of real estate you buy, it's asset allocation.

If what you are doing is not working, be innovative and do something different.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

There are essentially two ways to grow your firm; to add new practice areas in your city, or to move and expand into new cities.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

Don't ever rely on one job, business contact, etc for your main source of income. Receive multiple sources of income for success.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

In todays uncertain economy, the safest solution to be wealthy, be in total control and enjoy freedom for you and your family is to have multiple streams of income.

It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

Not every fruit has to be an apple.

The keys to not just survival but success, Busch understood, lay in diversification, distribution, and marketing.

A field tends of itself to multiply.

All financial rations being equal, I prefer to invest in multinational companies with more diversified sources of income and who can benefit from the higher growth of the emerging markets.

Commodities have shown a high correlation to inflation, especially in high inflation periods. In addition to diversification, the commodities asset class may also protect investment portfolios against an expected inflation or a declining local currency.

The challenge is that CEOs now think like global investors, while the political leadership thinks like local civil servants. Getting the right policies to attract and develop talented labor, capital and diversify the income sources will determine the prosperity and wealth of the people of each nation.

The fund owns shares in over eight thousand companies, which effectively means that Norwegians own over 1 per cent of the world's listed companies, almost 2 per cent of Europe's and 0.7 per cent of Asia's.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.