Top 30 Louis Navellier Quotes

Don’t punish small businesses with over-regulation.

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

After the Versailles treaty, the U.S. could have chosen to become a global economic loan shark, but we didn’t, and let a lot of the tab slide. So not all lending and borrowing is bad.

Internally, when we manage portfolios, we figure out what works in large cap, what works in mid cap, what works in small cap. Generally speaking, large cap stocks want earning stability, strong cash flow, margin expansion.

Large-caps were safe in 1996, ’97, ’98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.

Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers.

We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.

I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There’s nothing wrong with Dell! It’s a fine company. It’s just the business risk they took.

I grade my stocks. I’m what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.

If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn’t officially get going until March 2003.

I’m from Berkeley, California, so I’m fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can’t beat them, so we might as well index.

Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don’t sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation.

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.

There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.

Social Security was designed to give a few years of modest benefits to people whose bodies were worn out through coal mining, factory work and other physically demanding labor.

I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can’t go to stocks.

Now quantitatively we rank things on something called alpha over standard deviation, which is the return independent of the market divided by volatility. Usually, to get a high ranking, you need some buying pressure.

There’s a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

All I’m trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.

We really believe in the earnings. We’re very proud that often we do well in the down market. But you know, there are some markets where they just lose liquidity, like 2001, 2008.

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it’s better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

I simply can’t buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I’d like because there just aren’t all that many shares available.

I’ve been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

One of our big challenges with the newsletter is that everyone thinks big stocks are safe. That’s not true at all. They’re only safe if the money is flowing there.

I still love the semiconductor industry.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.