Business Quote by Barry Ritholtz Download Open image “In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.” — Barry Ritholtz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Expect Investing Investment Must Wrong You
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question. — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right. — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
Your initial instincts about investments and people are usually correct. We do a lot of due diligence in this business and most of the… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.” — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
A number of bloggers in economics and the financial sector have risen to prominence through the sheer strength of their work. Note it was… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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