Harry Markowitz Quotes

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

For all long-term investors, there is only one objective-maximum total real return after taxes.

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.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

Well, I think the secret is if you have a lot of stocks, some will do mediocre, some will do okay, and if one of two of 'em go up big time, you produce a fabulous result. And I think that's the promise to some people.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.

I invest in things for the long term and have a long horizon and the flexibility.

I'm a very passive investor.

No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

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.

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it's tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful.