"The investment business has taught me – increasingly……" — Jeremy Grantham
"The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news and wishful thinking to bad news; and that there are always vested interests to offer facile, optimistic alternatives to the bad news."
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37 Quotes by Jeremy Grantham
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It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.
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The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in…
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Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.
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You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have…
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Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a…
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I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our…
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I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.
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At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven't got a…
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I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to…
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