Portfolio Quotes
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I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term "thinking outside the box."
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More Portfolio Quotes
It is one thing to coolly design a portfolio strategy on a sheet of paper or computer monitor, and quite another to actually deploy it.
William Bernstein— Chapter 4, The Perfect Portfolio, p. 115
In going directly to Investment Heaven, you build your portfolio as you would build a wonderful company through a merger and acquisition program. You specify the way you want your portfolio to look, and then you assemble the profile piece by piece by bringing together companies that make their own individual contributions to the desired character.
robert haugen— The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why, Chapter 14: "The Roads to Heaven and Hell" (1999, p. 139)
Our portfolio was more of a Roach Motel-stocks came in and never left. This was exciting.
andy kessler— Part IV, Intellectual Property, It Works Again!, p.142
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience.
benjamin graham— Chapter I, What the Intelligent Investor Can Accomplish, p. 7
Owning a portfolio of value stocks is the equivalent of wearing a Nehru jacket over a pair of bell bottom trousers.
— Chapter 1, No Guts, No Glory, p. 37 (The Four Pillars of Investing (2002))
