Louis Navellier Quotes

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

The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.

The special sphere of finance within economics is the study of allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. To capture the influence and interaction of time and uncertainty effectively requires sophisticated mathematical and computational tools.

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.

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

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

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

In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.

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.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

I don't really like hedging. To me, if something needs to be hedged, you shouldn't have a position in it.

In markets, there are times when you are looking for what makes sense. At other times, you are looking for what you can do that is sensible versus constraints and uncertainties.

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.

The kind of investors we seek are long term because that's how we make our decisions.

With poker, you have a resolution of the hand within a couple of minutes. Whereas, even if the thought process in investing is very much the same, you're looking at an outcome that could be 2, 3, 4, 5 years from when you make the original decision. And the mindset related to that is very different.

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