Ander Crenshaw Quotes

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

To put all of your eggs in one basket is silly.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

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

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

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).

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

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'm a very passive investor.

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

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

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

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

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 think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

It is the part of the wise man ... not even to venture all his eggs in one basket.

I've learned that all investments have risk.

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

Far too many of my peers were taken in by the jet-setting rock star lifestyle and didn't realise the money might not last forever - but I have always had an eye on the future and invest in a syndicate to share risk.