Quotes About Diversification

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

People might just decide, 'Yeah, I'll diversify my portfolio. I'll live in a rental.' That is a very sensible thing for many people to do.

A midfielder should be able to play several positions.

I definitely need to take a look at several positions. I'm going to be playing a little everywhere. As much as I know at every position is better off for me and is better off for the team.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

I think I have made too many cop films.

Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

Right now I own shares of companies in 28 countries.

Country music has room for a little bit of everything.

There was a time when I was like, 'I'm a dramatic actor,' 'I'm a comedian'... There's no line anymore. You have to be able to cross over.

I have nothing against crossing over, but I don't need to change to cross over.

I like to dabble in a lot of things.

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

Any time you put all your eggs in one basket, you're just one stumble away from catastrophe. [Terri]

it's best we not keep all our eggs in one basket.

Instead, they have to build their own portfolios, made up of capabilities and competencies—being proficient at a range of particular tasks rather than at a specific job.

We need to have as many baskets for our eggs as possible. Even if we don't manage to ruin this planet ourselves, natural disasters or changes—or even changes in our star—could make it impossible to live on this planet. —Philosopher Anson MacDonald, radio interview, Butler, MO, USA, Terra, July 7, 1987 ("Anson MacDonald Day")

A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

El sistema económico me presiona para que expanda y diversifique mi cartera de valores, pero me da cero incentivos para expandir y diversificar mi compasión.

The best way to implement the key principles is with low management fee index funds, which help you diversify, minimize costs, stay disciplined and capture market returns wherever they may occur," says Dejan Ilijevski, president at Sabela Capital Markets in Munster, Indiana.