Jeremy Grantham Quotes

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• The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain.…
• It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.
• The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible…
• The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need…
• Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the American market is…
• Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
• You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?
• Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost…
• I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There…
• I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.
• At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a clue.
• I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of…
• The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king.
• I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
• We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.
• The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death…
• Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.
• Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same…
• Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the…
• Investment bubbles and high animal spirits do not materialize out of thin air. They need extremely favorable economic fundamentals together with free and easy, cheap…

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