Hans Rosling Quotes

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

Producers are not gamblers. They want a good return on their investment.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

The best early-stage venture capital investments appear obvious in retrospect; however, very few of them are actually obvious when you make them.

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

Trust me: I know a good investment when I see one.

In every investment, before I get involved or invest, I always see what the mindset of the founder, the CEO, is.

I can make it very clear: I get paid if we make good investments. And if we don't, I don't get paid. I have no incentive to sell our companies to Google; the entrepreneurs get to decide that. We are minority shareholders.

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.

Every time we make an investment decision at FedEx, we ask ourselves: 'What is the return on this investment?'

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the time it comes out where we started.

Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

We make a series of investments, some will pan out and some won't.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

When you're an investor, you can look at the quantitative and qualitative elements of an investment, but there's a third aspect: What you feel in your gut.

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

When the man who ought to want a stock doesn't want it, why should I want it?