Ibbotson Asset Quotes

#1. It seemed that, after contact with a few human generations, sand hogs would begin to understand human speech. The irony was that after coming to understand their riders fully, the beasts often ended up abandoning them and heading off into the wilderness.

Neal Asher

#2. With every action we take, we send love or suffering into the web that connects us.

Sharon Salzberg

#3. On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

Roger G. Ibbotson

#4. He'd never asked her whether she would prefer to have a master again, and now the thought of such a conversation made his throat tighten. In a sense it would be like asking someone whether they'd like to escape their present difficulties by killing themselves

Helene Wecker

#5. Focus. Focus. Focus ... on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

Robin Sharma

#6. Being a single girl in New York ... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

Emilia Clarke

#7. Why do you love me?"

I sigh at the question I've asked myself frequently over the years. With a quick peck to his lips, I tell him, "Because, in you, I found my heart.

April Brookshire

#8. Human tendency is to make mountains out of molehills. Yet when we examine our problems ... we realize it's how we look at them ... that really makes the difference.

Timothy Pina

#9. We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance.

Roger G. Ibbotson