Louis Navellier Quotes

Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

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.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

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

I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.

I'm making a case against how money managers are handling customers' money. The objective of the customer is not being met if the fund managers are diversifying their assets into hundreds of businesses. If they do this, they are typically performing close to the indexes. But that's not the way wealth is created.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.

I've had a very good stretch with startup investing, and I think it's very important to know when to hold your chips.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

There's so much disagreement about investing, and it's because nobody really knows.

I have no fear about the future for retail investors.

Regardless of what the future holds, intelligent investment in common stocks offer a solid route for a reasonable return on investment going forward.

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.

Profitability is the only way to control your own investments.

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

Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or a two, you're doing well. Statistically speaking, you throw the dice enough times, you're going to throw a one or a two five times in a row, and you're going to look pretty foolish, right?

I think it is crucial to diversify one's portfolio.

The reality is, risk is variable. Those in the financial world know it.

I spend about half of my time wondering why I have so much in stocks and about half wondering why I have so little.