Fooled Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and…

— Steve Burns

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

It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.

— Robert Kiyosaki

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

— Daniel Kahneman

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

— Harry Markowitz

Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or…

— Whitney Tilson

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“An intelligent investor sees an opportunity in dip than risk.”

— Mohith Agadi

We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds,…

— Roger G. Ibbotson

If, instead of playing the horses, an individual chooses to play the market, that is his own affair. Only he must understand that speculating…

— Catherine Crook de Camp

In choosing a portfolio, investors should seek broad diversification, Further, they should understand that equities--and corporate bonds also--involve risk; that markets inevitably fluctuate; and…

— Harry Markowitz

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

— Ben Bernanke