Louis Navellier Quotes

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

I'm a big believer in investing for the long term, and the decisions you make shouldn't be made if the economy is good or bad at a specific time.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.

In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.

My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Investing is for wealth preservation, not wealth creation, so first you have to make wealth.

If the investor doesn't have enough time and skill to investigate individual stocks or enough money to diversify a portfolio, the right thing to do is to invest in exchange-traded funds that give you exposure to asset classes. It does make sense for the individual investor to think in terms of holding individual asset classes.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.

Diversification has been, and balance, like Wellington, has been so drummed into me, it's part of my personality.

Don't focus on weekly or monthly returns.

We don't worry over macro-economic factors when investing, as we are always thinking about the long-term.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn't be in stocks.