Wilbur Ross Quotes

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation.

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

I buy the market through index funds. Since I'm getting older, I buy TIPS.

One day we will have more inflation, and our bonds will bleed like a pig. The only reason for buying long bonds is short-term or as a desperate haven for terrorized investors. But the potential to make longer-term real money is naught.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

When growth is slower-than-expected, stocks go down. When inflation is higher-than-expected, bonds go down. When inflation is lower-than-expected, bonds go up.

Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

In college, I was told the market can't be beat.

One component of the leading economic indicators is the yield curve. Bond investors keep a close eye on this, as it illustrates the spread or difference between long-term interest rates and short-term ones.

If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks - that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.

Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.

Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

Buy a $100 U.S. bond and frame it to teach your children about inflation by watching the U.S. bond value diminish to almost nothing over the next 20 years.

For all your long-term investments, such as retirement accounts that you won't touch for at least ten years, you need a mix of stocks and bonds. Stocks offer the best shot at inflation-beating gains. But stocks don't always go up. That's where bonds come into play: They have less upside potential, but they also do not pack the same risk.

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

There are great municipal investments out there, but on a blanket basis you have to be really careful about knowing what cash flows are supporting your investments.

I believe in the abolition of tax-exempt bonds.

Debt is the lifeblood of finance; with the rise of the securities-and-trading portion of the [financial] industry came a rise in all kinds [of debt], both public and private.

I don't know anything about a stock!

There is no such thing as a riskless hedge against inflation.

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