Quotes with investors

  • Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
  • Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
  • Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.
  • With Kickstarter, people are patrons of the arts. With Mosaic, people can be clean-energy investors like Warren Buffett.
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  • Barry Ritholtz A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Ann Macbeth Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Bill Gross Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • B. Kevin Turner Citadel is a global technology leader, recognized for its work to level the playing field for investors and make markets more fair, transparent and efficient. I look forward to leading this exemplary team as we grow this global business.
    B. Kevin Turner
    American businessman (1965 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Barry Ritholtz Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • B. W. Powe Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
    Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Arthur Levitt I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Brad Feld If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Aaron C. Brown If you want to understand financial markets, and their effects on the economy, you have to understand the trading game. Many short-term price movements are neither random nor caused by economic fundamentals. They're caused by investors buying and selling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 1
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein Individual investors beware: If you're constantly worried about a crash, you're probably making some big mistakes - and losing a lot of money in the process.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Carmen Busquets Investors are impatient and they are also desperate for the 'next big thing,' and they are not paying attention to the fact that the 'next big thing' can be an economic crisis that they have created by being very irresponsible with their power.
    Carmen Busquets
    Venezuelan entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor (1965 - )
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  • Beny Steinmetz Investors need to get rewarded for their investment, especially in unstable countries.
    Beny Steinmetz
    Israeli businessman
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  • Arthur Levitt Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should be skeptical.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Ben Casnocha It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.
    Ben Casnocha
    American author, entrepreneur, and investor (1988 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Brad Stone Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Benjamin Graham Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
    The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p.
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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