Jeff Jordan Quotes

It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial public offerings. They get to meet in person with companies' managements.

Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Entrepreneurs or international conglomerateurs, or large financial institutions buy or create mutual fund management companies to create a return on their own capital. It's capitalism at work, where the rewards tend to go to the managers rather than the investors.

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

Peer-to-peer lenders originally sought to attract retail investors to its loan marketplace, but the lack of high-returning assets elsewhere in the market has made these platforms increasingly attractive to major asset managers and hedge funds.

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

I had attracted large investments into information technology and built infrastructure in Hyderabad, including India's first greenfield airport, apart from attracting the country's first private sector investments in power generation.

If I needed money, I wouldn't sell $5 t-shirts. I'd sell a Grammy or an MTV award.

When it comes to owning stocks of the best-known businesses in the world, value investors usually feel like children looking through the window of the candy store, unable to afford the treats inside because they refuse to pay the prices such high-quality franchises typically bear.

Even at 10 years old, Jonathan and I started saying things like, 'Hey, what about this for the property?' And I remember my parents saying, 'You're 10. What do you know about real estate? Go play with toys.'

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

I would love to have a Divas Money in the Bank. That would be cool.

The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.

The easier question might be, 'What isn't Alibaba?' The company is only 15 years old, but it has gotten so big over that timeframe that it basically touches every single part of the Chinese economy. I think the simplest comparison to draw is that it is like eBay and Amazon combined.

Measuring the oil industry in dollars gives you a very warped view. Pick a sound currency such as Swiss francs or gold grams and look at the oil business through that lens.

The energy sector presents exceptional opportunities for governments and investors.

The people who were supposed to invest in refineries, who understand the market, are benefiting from there being no refineries because of the fuel import business.

When capital comes into our own countries, it ought to be for, you know, a longer-term investment. If it's extremely short, hot money, we ought to treat it in that way and have type of regulatory policy.

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

If you look at all the investments made during 'Dragons' Den,' the ratio of those that make it to those that don't is actually extremely high.

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.

Private equity is a science project for many, many years, and when you have a science project, it leaves the human beings as a secondary fact.

There's something on Wall Street called PIG - panic, ignorance, and greed. Those are the big sins. I'm not greedy, I knew I was ignorant, and I didn't panic.