William Gibson Quotes

The things that I've learned is, try to make all the mistakes with your own money and on a small level so that when you are responsible for a partner's money or assets, you've learned, and you don't make bigger mistakes.

There is very little difference between speculation and investment. The only difference is basically that investments are successful speculations because if you successfully anticipate the future you make a speculative profit.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

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.

I called my business manager in California and said, 'Sell all of my stock' - what little of it I had - and it's the only smart financial move I ever made.

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

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.

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.

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

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

In tennis, you strike a ball just after the rebound for the fastest return. It's the same with investment.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

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

The stock market is a discounter of all known information.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

My investment advice is rooted in my understanding of economics.

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.

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.

I play with leverage.

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

When the time is right, I'll start making investments and try to flip my money.

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