George Gilder Quotes

There is no such thing as high returns without risk.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

I seek individual investments that will allow me to target total portfolio returns of at least 20% annually after fees and expenses on an annual basis over a period of years, not months.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

Instead, to be financially free, we need to learn how to make mistakes and manage risk.

You can invest with less risk and make more money in the stock market. All you have to do is not be an average investor. Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.

Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do a very few things in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.

Of course if you happen to time the market really well, you can make more money with some of these smaller companies, but for someone with no exposure I wouldn't want to take the risk that they timed it wrong.

Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

There are two ways to approach the market. You can guess which direction prices will go in next, or you can figure out what businesses and their securities are really worth.

Never put your savings in risky investments. Only disposable income should find its way there.

Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don't know. That's your probability edge.

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

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

Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.

In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?

First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.

If you don't invest in risk management, it doesn't matter what business you're in, it's a risky business.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

Be cautious and content with low positive returns in 2015. The time for risk taking has passed.

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

No matter how skillful the trading scheme, over the long haul, abnormal returns are sustained only through abnormal exposure to risk.