Vladimir Potanin Quotes

People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.

If you want to invest in us, we believe customer number one, employee number two, shareholder number three. If they don't want to buy that, that's fine. If they regret, they can sell us.

Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

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.

We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks.

I like to invest in companies where I can really add value from my experience, network, etc., so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

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

It's easy to buy. Prove that you bought at the right time and the right price.

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

All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.

Investing should be dull. It shouldn't be exciting.

The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.

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.

I can't tell you the amount we plan to invest in new acquisitions because that will depend on the opportunities that become available to us.

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

I don't think you should put all your money in one place. It must be invested in different investments.

My job is to look after all our investments and ensure that we grow.

As a company, we are not interested only in investments.

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

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.

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

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