John Paulson Quotes

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

One of the rules I've learned is that struggling to try and think your way into making an investment is usually the best way to not have a great outcome.

Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision.

I know where I'm putting my money.

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.

I invest in funds myself even though I run my own fund for my daughters.

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

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

We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.

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

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

Ultimately, we measure ourselves on the success of our investments.

Everything I do in investment is just very different.

Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.

Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test.

Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account nor in any part of your thinking.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

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

The thing to do with mutual funds is to buy a couple of decent ones, set up an investment plan and then never, ever think about them again, except maybe once a quarter or so when you take a peek at your statements to make sure that you have not accidentally been buying the Fidelity Peace-in-the-Middle-East fund.

Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.