As in most subjects relating to money management, there’s a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification.
Dying venture firms are like the walking dead. They can have years of staggering around with stakes in still active portfolio companies, hoping they’re still holding a lottery ticket that could put them back in the game. If not, they just slowly wind down.
CEOs are worried they’re going to get fired any minute. They’re worried about their portfolios.
Look, I think if you’ve got a niche portfolio or just operating in one country, like the United States, your ability to absorb the volatility is much less.
I didn’t launch the website with any goals in mind, to be honest. I didn’t know that it would have been anything other than a digital portfolio once I graduated college.
I think I can hold every portfolio – defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I’d like the foreign office.
Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio – if done right.
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?
If you’re going to be a model, what’s going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you’re wearing, it might come from your core being.
In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.
I’m fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I’m proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.
I’m a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.
I started out like any other model – I didn’t use my name as leverage. I went out with a portfolio and pounded the pavement and it was surprising how many people wouldn’t see me because I was too short.
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.
In today’s gig economy, where jobs have been replaced by ‘portfolios of projects,’ most people find themselves doing more things less well for two-thirds of the money.
