Top 31 Fund Manager Quotes
#1. In February 2000, hedge-fund manager James J. Cramer proclaimed that Internet-related companies "are the only ones worth owning right now." These "winners of the new world," as he called them, "are the only ones that are going higher consistently in good days and bad.
Benjamin Graham
#2. I'm quite bullish. We're coming up on year 15 of a flat stock market. Historically that's a pretty good sign. So I'm not a hedge-fund manager but if I was I think I'd be feeling pretty good.
Marc Andreessen
#3. Guys who can't get a job on Wall Street get a job at Moody's, as one Goldman Sachs trader-turned-hedge fund manager put it.
Michael Lewis
#4. The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.
Mark Cuban
#5. There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?
Gary Weiss
#6. Any pension fund manager who doesn't have the vast majority-and I mean 70% or 80% of his or her portfolio-in passive investments is guilty of malfeasance, nonfeasance or some other kind of bad feasance!
Merton Miller
#7. Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.
Peter Cundill
#8. I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that.
Robert Harris
#9. A hedge fund manager whose clients demand monthly performance reports has different needs than any individual investors with a 20-year time horizon. The needs of that long-term investor differ markedly from someone who is retiring in three years.
Barry Ritholtz
#10. Mutual fund manager performance does not persist and the return of stock picking is zero.
William J. Bernstein
#11. For though there was no chance of persuading a pension fund manager looking to make a longer-term loan to buy a Freddie Mac bond that could evaporate tomorrow, one could easily sell him the third tranche of a CMO.
Michael Lewis
#12. I think the idea that the hedge fund manager gets lower taxes than the taxi driver or the physics professor is insane. The legislators who leave that policy in place are derelict in their duties to be rational and fair. There are plenty of them in both political parties. It's totally outrageous.
Charlie Munger
#13. Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.
Bill Gross
#14. Google the phrase "the most hated man in America." And this guy is one of the first people to pop up. Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, a 32-year-old drug company entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager who has a lot of money and loves to talk about how he spends it.
Joy-Ann Reid
#15. Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
Samantha Shannon
#17. It's also awkward to be so short you can see all the way up into someone's cerebral cortex, but welcome to my life.
Ashley Poston
#18. Many new funds may see these policies and procedures as something to be implemented after a fund has launched, but if the manager wants to attract institutional money, these must be in place from the start.
An Anonymous COO
#19. Form a clear mental vision of your ideal life before you start taking action to achieve it.
Amey Hegde
#20. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.
Gena Showalter
#21. The barometer of his emotional nature was set for a spell of riot.
James Joyce
#22. All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.
Peter Lynch
#23. If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.
Dalai Lama
#24. Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
Albert Schweitzer
#25. On the day after Christmas, some store or another will always take out and ad saying there are only 364 shopping days to Christmas. No one is amused.
Gerard Del Re
#26. When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.
David Einhorn
#27. We will never have the elite smart people on our side.
Rick Santorum
#29. Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.
Steven Pinker
#31. I'm happy, I'm in a good place, I'm looking forward to my future.
Katy Perry