Top 151 Portfolio Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Portfolio Quotes from famous people such as John C. Bogle, Mayawati, Gita Gopinath, Rachel Hollis, Steve Eisman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Net return is simply the gross return of your investmen

Net return is simply the gross return of your investment portfolio less the costs you incur. Keep your investment expenses low, for the tyranny of compounding costs can devastate the miracle of compounding returns.
John C. Bogle
When I will become prime minister, SC Mishra, Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Swami Prasad Maurya will be Union ministers with with important portfolios but the chief minister of UP will only be a Dalit who has dedicate his life for BSP.
Mayawati
Portfolio investment, often called ‘hot money’ because of its volatile nature, can increase the economy’s vulnerability to the vagaries of international finance. Foreign direct investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.
Gita Gopinath
I have been known to, on more than one occasion, look down my nose at items I deem to be tacky wedding fare… carnations, tulle, DIY invitations. And yet, the wedding I’m most embarrassed of having planned, the one I’d never put into my portfolio, is my own.
Rachel Hollis
The one stock in my portfolio which I say hasn’t worked yet but has the potential for a big home run is General Motors.
Steve Eisman
As governor, I would seek to ensure that Massachusetts has access to a balanced portfolio of low-cost energy that doesn’t put us at a competitive disadvantage relative to other states, or put an even heavier burden on working families.
Charlie Baker
I have definitely refocused Lowercase Capital on later-stage deals and my existing portfolio.
Chris Sacca
When I will become prime minister, SC Mishra, Naseemuddin Siddiqui and Swami Prasad Maurya will be Union ministers with with important portfolios but the chief minister of UP will only be a Dalit who has dedicate his life for BSP.
Mayawati
You’ve always got to think about having some fixed income in your portfolio as well as equities.
Charles Schwab
We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.
David Einhorn
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They’re doing what I’m doing!
Nathan Myhrvold
There will be many types of assets codified into the blockchain, and they are all not just going to be on the bitcoin blockchain – it’s going to be a number of different assets here. And the best way to invest in that is a diversified portfolio.
Olaf Carlson-Wee
In investing, you get what you don’t pay for. Costs matter. So intelligent investors will use low-cost index funds to build a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds, and they will stay the course. And they won’t be foolish enough to think that they can consistently outsmart the market.
John C. Bogle
When reviewing one’s portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one’s stocks.
Whitney Tilson
Now there is tons of information available online. 90% of students rarely look at magazines in their intended format because they’re looking at them on a computer screen. They don’t understand the layout, so when they come to putting their own portfolios together, they have no spatial awareness.
Louise Wilson
I often feel like Facebook is a giant friend portfolio, and sometimes it can be a much more socially appropriate way of contacting a person as compared with texting or telephone. And never mind the fact that it’s integrated into the iPhone. Makes me crazy in a super good way.
Chris Benz
We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios – right now in US Treasury Bonds.
Jose Ramos-Horta
Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.
Kenneth Fisher
Generally a chef’s book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
Sally Schneider
Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero. But financial engineers should know that’s not true of a portfolio of correlated risks.
Harry Markowitz
The most important asset you need to protect in order to manage the demands of a job or an investment portfolio is your production of energy. And, just like with money, if you do a great job managing your energy, you’ll get a great return.
Jim Loehr
I do believe it is important to be future-ready with a portfolio to be able to deal with however the market evolves. This is better than just forecasting accurately but in having the weapons ready to deal with the uncertainties.
Anand Mahindra
Republicans seem to be gambling that most Americans won’t care about a few rich private equity managers if their own taxes go down, their stock portfolio goes up, and economic growth accelerates.
James B. Stewart
I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I’m really excited to be continuing in film because it’s a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
Colleen Haskell
My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised.
Whitney Tilson
There could be no better time to fully integrate Infinity with Viacom’s tremendous portfolio of assets. Infinity is performing at record levels and continues to generate a tremendous amount of free cash flow that will now fully benefit Viacom.
Mel Karmazin
One way to ease liquidity for banks is that the government can buy all highly rated securities held by the banks. Every single bank in the U.A.E. has some sovereign debts in their portfolios. I am not asking them to buy any junk bonds, rather the high quality U.A.E. government debt.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
As in most subjects relating to money management, there’s a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification.
Whitney Tilson
As CEO of Aetna, I was a buyer of portfolio companies rather than a participant in the value creation process. From the end of the assembly line, what happened in manufacturing wasn’t visible to me.
Ron Williams
But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.
David Milne
If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing – a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio – most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don’t come to fruition.
Cass Sunstein
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.
Merton Miller
There’s 4,000-plus stocks out there, and sometimes it gets a little confusing. And we like them to start with the portfolio grader, but if they’d like to see how I use the system and pick stocks – we offer that as well.
Louis Navellier
My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to network at public events, to cultivate senior journalists at important outlets, and how to run a profitable P&L. But, more or less, he allowed me to make my own mistakes.
Richard Edelman
I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I’m doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world – the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
Fabrice Grinda
I do believe it is important to be future-ready with a portfolio to be able to deal with however the market evolves. This is better than just forecasting accurately but in having the weapons ready to deal with the uncertainties.
Anand Mahindra
You’ll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It’s called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest and fastest.
Jean Chatzky
But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.
Craig McCracken
In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers – whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives – greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
Carol Loomis
If the fluctuations in your investment portfolio are reduced, the impact of emotions and behavior on your account is also reduced.
John C. Bogle
I have a website because it’s an interesting tool, very – and quite unexpectedly – useful for my work. It’s become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.
John Howe
Adding C3, the leading festival portfolio in North America, to our global portfolio of Insomniac, Festival Republic and Country Nation provides Live Nation with the world’s largest festival platform.
Michael Rapino
But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.
Jim Cantalupo
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term ‘muppets’ has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I’ve adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients’ best interests.
Barry Ritholtz