Customer Quote by Harry Markowitz

The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the…

— Benjamin Graham

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most investors are primarily oriented toward return, how much they can make and pay little attention to risk, how much they can lose.

— Seth Klarman

“After all, the essential point in running a risk is that the returns justify it.”

— Isaac Asimov

Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.

— Ben Bernanke

We try not to have many investing 'rules,' but there is one that has served us well: If we decide we were wrong about…

— David Einhorn

All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come

— Seth Klarman

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

— George Gilder

Some investments do have higher expected returns than others. Which ones? Well, by and large they're the ones that will do the worst in…

— William Forsyth Sharpe

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“This paradox exists because most investors think quality, as opposed to price, is the determinant of whether something's risky. But high quality assets can…

— Howard Marks

To enjoy a reasonable chance for continued better than average results, the investor must follow policies which are (1) inherently sound and promising, and…

— Benjamin Graham