Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz

American author and newspaper columnist

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary)

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  • 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.
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  • Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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  • One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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  • Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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  • Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.
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  • People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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  • People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
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  • 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.
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  • Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets.
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  • Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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  • The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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  • The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
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  • The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you should limit it to 2 or 3 percent.
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  • The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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  • The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
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  • The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.
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  • The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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  • The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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  • The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
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  • There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
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