Stanley Druckenmiller Quotes

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

Zeroing in on the best sectors or the best regions of the world is great, but zeroing in on the very best individual stocks is the key to making truly impressive profits.

You can make great money in a utility type of business by borrowing cheaply and lending sensibly but that's not what's being done.

I like things with upside. That's how you make money.

In some industries, we refer to risk taking as 'research and development.' At financial institutions, we often take risk by investing in securities.

So I think you want to keep a keen eye on things. Grab it and go. Sure, you check your financials, but don't be afraid to take a jump. Learn the trends.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models.

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.

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

I never lost money by turning a profit.

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.

I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.

You know, capital isn't patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

I'm not sure at all that I'm any good at this mentoring/investing business - that's why I'm using my own money, and that's why it's not a career.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

The second thing we did was said, OK, we've now identified the risk, but what do you want to do with the money? Because it's not enough to have risk; you've got to have a meaningful use for the money we give you.

I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.