Lynn Good Quotes

You could lose hundreds or thousands one day on paper and gain it all back the next, and it has literally no effect on your immediate future, provided the money you have in the market is money you're investing for the long haul (meaning at least three to five years).

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

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

In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

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.

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

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.

Regardless of what happens in the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.

If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

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

I have plenty of investments that I wish I'd never made. But the model is to lose money on a lot of investments and then make 1,000X or 10,000X on an investment.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

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.

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.

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

I'm a very passive investor.

When it comes to money, the best investments were probably the ones I did not make.

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.

Like everybody, I have invested in things that have gone bad, because there's never any guarantee of success or profit when it comes to money.

Investor confidence in Adani is fairly high, and most of our investors are long-term investors.

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.