Sanjaya Baru Quotes

More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.

I don't invest in the stock market. I did it a long, long time ago when I was really young, and I got involved in all the investigations and all the prosecutions, and I felt it was better if I didn't make individual investments. So I'm invested in funds, but not in individual - not in individual stocks.

The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over.

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

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.

What I'm trying to say is that for the average investor, what I would encourage them to do is to understand that there's inflation and growth. It can go higher and lower and to have four different portfolios essentially that make up your entire portfolio that gets you balanced.

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

The party line is that stocks historically have outperformed all other investment plans.

Any time you speak to people about their posture, you learn about their most recent investment activity. When someone just bought stocks, they tend to be bullish; someone who just sold is bearish.

I really did believe that the most successful investments were the ones that you could own for the long run.

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.

Stocks change. Industries change. But the underlying reasons certain stocks are good investments remain the same. Only the fullness of time reveals which are the most sound.

When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

The government can’t guarantee that you should earn profit from your investments.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate [on the Stock Market]: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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

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.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

I like to spend money on investments.

We have a broad range of investments. Anyone who invests in emerging markets around the world has investments in Russia. This is a tiny portion of our portfolio.

If you live in the digital economy, you have to be careful to have your investment thesis squarely bolted into your reality.

If I've learned anything as an economic analyst, it is that the stock market and economic winds can shift by the hour.