Top 35 Markowitz Quotes
#1. I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.
Harry Markowitz
#2. 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
#3. But it was my first evidence that Diane lived in a world even bigger than the Big House, a world where grief and joy moved as ponderously as tides, with the weight of an ocean behind them.
Robert Charles Wilson
#4. If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.
Janice Markowitz
#5. It's like a crapshoot in Las Vegas, except in Las Vegas the odds are with the house. As for the market, the odds are with you, because on average over the long run, the market has paid off.
Harry Markowitz
#6. We'd be unfeeling, unconscious zombies if we did.
John Brockman
#7. Mom, Dad, I'm fourteen, I see what the world is like. And, no, I did not get this from the psychologist ... I came to this understanding on my own, from what I really see in myself and about life.
Darryl Steven Markowitz
#8. She scolded him with fire in her eyes, feeling where he was going, feeling as if she was stabbed in the heart. I wasn't saying it was bad. Different doesn't mean bad. In fact, I think you are so ... beautiful! What you say ... it makes sense to me in ways I can't even understand.
Darryl Steven Markowitz
#9. Science and religion both teach that we are all interconnected, and thus interdependent. And at the very core, we are all One. But how do we live as if we know this?
Ram Dass
#10. Where do thoughts come from, Father?"
King Mafferan looked deeply into his twelve-year-old eyes. "While I may not be sure all thoughts are my own, I am sure when I own them.
Darryl Steven Markowitz
#11. Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to be conscious or not." Metaphysically, the choice "to be conscious or not" is the choice of life or death.
Ayn Rand
#12. The problem is, we have too many cowardly, spineless, selfish people that would sacrifice their children's future just to avoid the sacrifice love requires of them in the present. And they expect their children to respect them for that? Do they think we're idiots just because we're young?
Darryl Steven Markowitz
#13. Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.
Khaled Hosseini
#14. During the 1950s, I decided, as did many others, that many practical problems were beyond analytic solution and that simulation techniques were required. At RAND, I participated in the building of large logistics simulation models; at General Electric, I helped build models of manufacturing plants.
Harry Markowitz
#15. Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
William Penn
#16. 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 their portfolio should be such that they are willing to ride out the bad as well as the good times.
Harry Markowitz
#17. I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly ... I love America.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#18. To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.
Harry Markowitz
#20. If you fall then that's not all ... if you wish to be down then stay down ... if you wish to be up then get up.
Janice Markowitz
#21. Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
C. Robert Kehler
#22. Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero. But financial engineers should know that's not true of a portfolio of correlated risks.
Harry Markowitz
#23. Her. We're not them. We don't have to be like them.
Annika Martin
#24. I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.
Harry Markowitz
#25. If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.
Janice Markowitz
#26. What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
Russell Banks
#27. My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.
Hugh Panaro
#28. Becoming an economist was not a childhood dream of mine.
Harry Markowitz
#29. I am not responsible for the soul path of another person.
Dave Markowitz
#30. Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.
Harry Markowitz
#31. 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
#32. In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.
Harry Markowitz
#33. The chief problem with the individual investor: He or she typically buys when the market is high and thinks it's going to go up, and sells when the market is low and thinks it's going to go down.
Harry Markowitz
#34. A good portfolio is more than a long list of good stocks and bonds. It is a balanced whole, providing the investor with protections and opportunities with respect to a wide range of contingencies.
Harry Markowitz
#35. We need a toughness. We need strength. We're not respected, as a nation anymore. We don't have that level of respect that we need. And if we don't get it back fast, we're just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.
Donald Trump
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