Top 45 Investment Management Quotes
#1. The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.
Robert D. Arnott
#2. There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.
Charlie Munger
#3. People who watch their weight, golf scores, and fuel bills seem to shun quantitative evaluation of their investment management skills although it involves the most important client in the world-themselves.
Warren Buffett
#4. Investment management, as traditionally practiced, is based on a single core belief: Investors can beat the market and superior managers will beat the market.
Charles D. Ellis
#5. The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.
Daniel Kahneman
#6. The fundamental work of investment management is filtering. The question is what do you filter.
Donald Luskin
#7. In my opinion, the entire field of investment management, involving hundreds of billions of dollars, would be more satisfactorily conducted if everyone had a good yardstick for measurement of ability and sensibly applied it.
Warren Buffett
#8. A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business
Charlie Munger
#9. The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
Benjamin Graham
#10. The nature of risk may be the single most important argument for the use of quantitative analysis in investment management. Neither Investors nor Analysts can be blamed for this fact. Nor can Harry Markowitz. Nature made risk a quadratic function. Markowitz only discovered it.
William Sharpe
#11. Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
Andrew Lo
#12. Thus China did not regard foreign investment as only bringing money into the country: instead China's leaders saw "investment" as bringing in new technologies, management systems and markets.
Anonymous
#13. All but a few of the organizations do not specifically promise to deliver superior investment performance although it is perhaps not unreasonable for the public to draw such an inference from their advertised emphasis on professional management.
Warren Buffett
#14. Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.
Idowu Koyenikan
#15. Let no body lie you that there is a future other than a moment you are able to walk and talk.
Auliq Ice
#16. Risk managers and investment bankers and actually, all kinds of investors took on more risk than they expected. So there was a failure of risk management. There was a failure to recognize how much risk there was in some of these securities that people bought.
Robert F. Engle
#17. If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#19. Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earnings power through economic changes or deterioration in management.
Benjamin Graham
#20. People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn't belong to them.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#21. You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely
Sunday Adelaja
#22. Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Performance of management should be measured by potential to stay in business, to protect investment, to ensure future dividends and jobs through improvement of product and service for the future, not by the quarterly dividend.
W. Edwards Deming
#28. It's natural that you'd have more brains going into money management. There are so many huge incomes in money management and investment banking - it's like ants to sugar. There are huge incentives for a man to take up money management as opposed to, say, physics, and it's a lot easier.
Charlie Munger
#30. Our industry expertise (at KKR) enables the firm not only to make better investment choices but also to win the confidence of senior management and sellers, which has enabled us to purchase many companies on an exclusive basis.
Henry Kravis
#31. It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.
Peter Schiff
#32. Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.
Elizabeth Grace Saunders
#34. A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak.
Heather Simmons
#36. The more your money works for you, the less you have to work for money.
Idowu Koyenikan
#37. There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.
Malcolm Forbes
#40. Legg Mason's structure is misunderstood by the market. Legg Mason has an affiliate model. They own 100% of their affiliates, which are investment managers such as Permal, Western Asset Management, and Royce.
Nelson Peltz
#41. Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.
Li Shufu
#42. Time is priceless gift.
Time defined moments.
Time lost can not be redefined.
May you find the value of time as your greatest wealth.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#43. Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?
Bill Gross
#44. Most business schools are geared toward churning out investment bankers and management consultants.
Vivek Wadhwa
#45. As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
John Maynard Keynes
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