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Quotes About Diversification

If you keep taking an approach that continues to lead you over and over again to the same result, you just have to take a total new different approach to get to your desired result".
~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Never forget that the portfolio's the thing: Inevitably, it will contain poorly performing asset classes—there will always be at least one—but its identity will change from year to year.
~ William J. Bernstein
If you are such an individual and become upset when one of your asset classes does poorly, even when the rest of your portfolio is doing well, then you should not be managing your own money.
~ William J. Bernstein
The five major domestic asset classes you should use are: large market, small market, large value, small value, REITs.
~ William J. Bernstein
Because we cannot predict the future, we diversify. —Paul Samuelson
~ William J. Bernstein
At this point, it's important to clarify the difference between bonds and stocks. A bond is simply a loan. Most often, bonds have a sharply limited upside: the best that you can do is collect your interest payments and principal at maturity. A share of stock, on the other hand, represents a claim on all of the future earnings of the company. As such, its upside is potentially unlimited. It
~ William J. Bernstein
If you still crave financial thrills or feel compelled to have exciting investments to talk about with folk at parties, then designate a very small corner of your portfolio as mad money, to be deployed in 'exciting' investments. Just make sure to promise yourself that when it's gone, it's gone.
~ William J. Bernstein
The risk of owning stock in a single shaky company is very high. But in a portfolio of many such losers, a few might reasonably be expected to pull through, providing the investor with a reasonable return. Thus
~ William J. Bernstein
The great expanding centre of 'inner Britain', London, did not build ships but it built aeroplanes, it did not mine coal but it made electrical equipment, it did not grow food but it did process it – into beer, refined sugar, Horlicks and Mars bars. It made tyres, Hoovers, films.
~ David Edgerton
Given the difficulties in timing markets and the challenges of security selection, such behavior provides a rational foundation for investment management. By avoiding extreme allocation shifts and holding diversified portfolios, investors cause asset allocation to account for the largest share of portfolio returns.
~ David F. Swensen
In its most basic form, the message of Unconventional Success requires only a few pages to describe the blueprint of a well-diversified, equity-oriented, passively managed portfolio, using not-for-profit investment managers to implement the plan.
~ David F. Swensen
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
~ Warren Buffett
The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.
~ Marc Faber
Agentic capacity is now seen as differentially distributed across a wider range of ontological types. This
~ Jane Bennett
Las empresas de software no se suelen plantear escribir libros. Los grupos de música no se suelen plantear filmar el proceso de grabación de canciones. Los fabricantes de coches no se suelen plantear vender carbón. Seguro que hay algo que tú podrías vender y que aún no te has planteado.
~ Jason Fried
Favor everything without exception that makes people different: discourage everything whatsoever that makes people alike. The Rest follows
~ E.E. Cummings
I always said I wanted Essence to be like Time Warner, the publishing empire that had movies, books, and television, as well as magazines in its vast holdings. I saw ECI as a miniconglomerate within the African American community. But I knew we had to expend our core magazine business into other magazine ventures if we were going to grow the franchise.
~ Edward Lewis
Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
For me, being in retirement, it was just having the opportunity to watch other stuff and do different things.
~ Shawn Michaels
I would much rather invest in stocks, bonds, private equity and hedge funds than watches.
~ J. J. Redick
I'm going to be testing waters in all genres.
~ Henry Golding
The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.
~ Ivan Moody
We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.
~ Pranab Mukherjee
I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.
~ Marvin Hagler