Securities Quotes

59 quotes by 50 authors

To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise… — Harry Markowitz
Iâ€™ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a great teacher with… — Warren Buffett
I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered a high mark… — Gerald M. Loeb
Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme. — Harry Markopolos
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are… — Ayn Rand
Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of good business… — Benjamin Graham
To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no… — John Thain
Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud. — Don Nickles
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance… — Ron Chernow
[T]he main evil of the present democratic institutions of the united states does not raise, as is often asserted in Europe, from their weakness, but… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In that, we agreed with Andrew Carnegie, who said that huge fortunes that flow in large part from society should in large part be returned… — Warren Buffett
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities. — Mary Anne Radmacher
There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work. — Robert J. Eaton
Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes. — Preet Bharara
From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies,… — Preet Bharara
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
If we're talking about buying exchanges abroad, we have to have global securities standards, as we have global banking regulations. I'm talking about margins. Now,… — Muriel Siebert
In the United States, securities markets are much more developed than they are in Europe. — Robert C. Solomon
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be. — Billy Connolly
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities. — Daniel Kahneman

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