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Portrait of Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz

(1961) Writer

103 quotes in 963 categories

Barry Ritholtz reminds investors that they can’t know the future and should be aware of what they don’t understand. He points out that markets often move ahead of, or differently from, the real economy. He also says that the stories people tell about money can lead to big mistakes.

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Barry Ritholtz is a writer.

Quick Facts About Barry Ritholtz

Born: October 22, 1961
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Bailout nation: how easy money corrupted Wall Street and shook the world economy

About Barry Ritholtz

He serves as chief investment officer of the firm, which manages more than $7.65 billion in assets. His early public attention came from his warnings that risky derivatives and mortgage practices could cause a financial crisis, which later unfolded as the subprime mortgage crisis.

Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

Salesmen always need something to sell.

Always

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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.

Catch

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

Business

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When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

Customer

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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

Anyone

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'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

Decent

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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

Background

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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

Ahead

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Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.

Become

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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped…

About

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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

Getting

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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

Allowed

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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

Asking

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Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

Always

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When it comes to investing, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all portfolio.

Customer

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Even when you are right, there are costs and taxes associated with being tactical. When you are wrong, there are opportunity costs.

Associated

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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money.…

Customer

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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an…

Anything

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I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential…

Acquisition

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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon.…

Anytime

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Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent…

Customer

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It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what…

Accurately

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Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more…

Broad

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Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how…

Best

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The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the…

Also

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Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

Forecasting

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I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.

Bashing

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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.

Awful

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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes…

Am

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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.

Advertising

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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.

Correctly

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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

Balance

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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

Climate

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The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

About

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The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

Data

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History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Business

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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.

Assets

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The bottom line is this: Cash, in modest increments, has a role in any portfolio. But unless you are Warren Buffett, you…

Any

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When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero.

About

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Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not…

Bores

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