Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

At the end of the day, the markets are my passion.

As an investor, I'm always scouting for new trends.

Everything I do in investment is just very different.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

Doing ventures is great - I'm talking economics now - if you've got a rising market. It's wonderful. If I hadn't got HKT, I would have been just as happy. Because there's a price for everything. And to overpay for something is awful.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

I know where I'm putting my money.

It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

My adversary is the world of finance.

I'm primarily just an investor.

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.

Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

I've always wanted to invest. That's why I started working on Wall Street in the first place, back in 1986 when I went through the Salomon Brothers training program.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

I like to spend money on investments.

I'm going to reveal the grand secret to getting rich by investing. It's a simple formula that has worked for Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn and all the greatest investment gurus over the years. Ready? Buy low, sell high.

The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube. And I love solving puzzles.