Quote by John Del Vecchio

“39 percent of stocks had a negative total return. (Two out of every five stocks are money-losing investments.)”

— John Del Vecchio

“It’s easy to see why the undervalued stocks were undervalued. Profits fell 30 percent in three years before they were picked. Investors expected those…

— Tobias Carlisle

Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.

— Kenneth Fisher

If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

— William O'Neil

“Over the 210 years I have examined stock returns, the real return on a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks has averaged 6.6 percent per year.”

— Jeremy J. Siegel

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds…

— David F. Swensen

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

The great personal fortunes in the country weren't built on a portfolio of fifty companies. They were built by someone who identified one wonderful…

— Warren Buffett

“There is no question that the losing IPOs far outnumber the winners. Of the 8,606 firms examined, the returns on 6,796 of these firms,…

— Jeremy J. Siegel

“From 1977 to 1987, our average annual return to investors was 46 percent. And even in the middle of the recession, in 1991, we…

— Sam Walton