Benjamin Graham Quotes

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

When you take smaller gambles, no one particular deal can be big enough to have a material adverse effect on the company.

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

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

I have a million dollars in the stock market, because if I lose a million dollars, I don't personally care.

Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.

I'm a very passive investor.

Investors should invest on what they know. The biggest mistake is to invest on what they don't know.

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 would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision making - just the facts.

If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although it is okay to be wrong, it is not okay to stay wrong.

My view is that one should diversify broadly across different fund investments. However, it's tough for investors to try to pick the appropriate risk level that they should manage their funds at. Having a personal adviser would be helpful.

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.

We believe in constructing the portfolio so that we put our biggest amount of money in our highest-conviction idea, and then we view the other ideas relative to that.

Never underrate the importance of asset allocation.

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

I'm investing. I'm taking a lot of bitcoin, selling it as the price goes up, and putting it into real estate. Because then if bitcoin goes to zero - which, it's an experiment, it could - I won't be on the street.

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

What I do for a living is so high-risk that I try to make sure my portfolio is as conservative as possible.