Absolutes Quote by George Soros

“How can institutional investors hope to outperform the market... when, in effect, they are the market?”

— Charles D. Ellis

The overwhelming majority of people are comfortable with consensus, but successful investors tend to have a contrarian bent,

— Seth Klarman

we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the…

— Benjamin Graham

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend…

— Andrew Tobias

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that…

— Maria Bartiromo

It's no secret that big institutional investors have a lot of advantages on Wall Street. They get the first chance to buy hot initial…

— Alex Berenson

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

— Jessica Livingston

Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation, of course,…

— Jonathan Clements

'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior -…

— Charlie Munger

We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They buy a…

— John C. Bogle

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

— Seth Klarman

Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they…

— Seth Klarman