(2892 quotes found)
“Invest in YOUR child invest in OUR future!”
Anthony Mizzi
“Save and invest 10% of your income. This amount can compound and bring you 90% of your future income.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“It’s all about ROI and it’s not Return of Ignorance. ROI is not a formula, it’s a responsibility. Long live ROI.”
Lily Chatterjee
“If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them. If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.”
Warren Buffett
“While 2005 was a challenging year, we did make some significant progress. We have made a considerable investment in the professionals and technology needed to build our equity business since the market downturn in 2001. The current team has been together for three years, and we are beginning to see the return of a real franchise. Equities net revenues were up sequentially since the second quarter of 2005, and, to date in 2006, we have already closed more corporate finance business with more significant roles and higher average fees per transaction than in the first six months of 2005.”
Alan Goldberg
“It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don’t have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it’s genetic.”
Seth Klarman
“So the question is not, Are people smart, are people sophisticated, do they have clever ways of looking at things, are they looking in the right areas? The question is, Are there periods when none of that matters because their human natures get the best of them ?”
““By holding expensive securities with low prospective returns, people choose to risk actual loss. We prefer the risk of lost opportunity to that of lost capital, and agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment espoused by respected value investor Jean-Marie Eveillard, when he said, “I would rather lose half our shareholders than lose half our shareholder’s money"”
“We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk – how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplistic or even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.”
“Markets are inefficient because of human nature – innate, deep-rooted, permanent. People don’t consciously choose to invest with emotion - they simply can’t help it.”
