Diversification Quote by Warren Buffett Download Open image “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.” — Warren Buffett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diversification Investing Investors Wide
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The idea of excessive diversification is madness. Wide diversification, which necessarily includes investment in mediocre businesses, only guarantees ordinary results. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Diversification is a way to protect financial consultants and stock brokers from ever looking really bad, but it also stops them from looking really… — David Clark Copy Share Image
Diversification is something that stock brokers came up with to protect themselves, so they wouldn't get sued for making bad investment choices for clients.… — Jim Rogers Copy Share Image
The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing. — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
“The purpose of diversification is so that when one investment goes down or is not doing well, you are insulated from the result because… — Chris Lutz Copy Share Image
Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness. — Martin J. Whitman Copy Share Image
“It is by owning multiple asset classes - foreign stocks, bonds, TIPS, real estate, commodities, etc. - that we can truly consume the "free… — Alex Frey Copy Share Image
To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.” — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; it is the by-product of our guiding purpose. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally-and certainly not in reinsurance-as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is better to point out your own mistakes than have somebody else do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I've read about all the sales today. If you're an auto dealer, you're feeling it. If you're a furniture retailer like we are, you're… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What you really want to do in investments is figure out what's important and knowable. If it's unimportant or unknowable you forget about it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I don't measure my life by the money I've made. Other people might, but certainly don't. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
We believe that almost all really good investment records will involve relatively little diversification. The basic idea that it was hard to find good… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I started digging and found that Israel signed a peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates after the country had diversified their economy, instead… — Shai Agassi Copy Share Image
If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing so wide diversification is only required when investors are ignorant. You only have to do… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
“Diversification is a component and in some cases a very good initiation of value creation.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“I like "multi-"...multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.” — Rossana Condoleo Copy Share Image
I think we are seeing a radical shift in the business in general. The studios are making much more of the real big extravaganzas… — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Our policy is to concentrate holdings. We try to avoid buying a little of this or that when we are only lukewarm about the… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image