Joe Lonsdale Quotes

A financial plan is a way to take all of the money advice you come across and figure out how it applies to your specific financial situation.

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

At 19 I was lucky enough to start making money from my music career, and when I was in my early twenties I trusted financial experts and advisers to guide me with how I invested money.

I'm not looking for hobbies, I'm looking for investments.

I have good people around me who guide me, tell me where I should put my money.

Wealth management businesses are capital light businesses.

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

People used to ask me for advice, and I'd say, 'Please, don't ask me!' Yes, I did economics at Oxford, but that's not the same as having a broad knowledge of personal finance.

I never dreamed I would want to be or become a financial advisor.

Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.

I understand that finance can be very complex.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

At first, the only thing that I learned was to save. Then I learned about mutual fund, then later on direct stock investments. I also went into small businesses and even real estate.

Make sure to save for the future and keep making money!

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

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

Maximising my wealth was never my chief thing.

When you grow up in life and you're poor, and because you're an athlete or you got rich overnight in music, unless you have access to financial advice or for the transition or matriculation of that process, then of course, you're going to go broke.

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.