Quotes About Diversification

#1. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

Warren Buffett

#2. The acceleration of the marketing process, the concentrating of manufacturing, greater diversification, increased international competition, have in turn speeded up product improvements, product innovations and new product introductions. The stakes are high, the failures costly.

Tom Sutton

#3. Buffett himself says, Diversification is protection against ignorance. (It) makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#4. Diversification is your buddy.

Merton Miller

#5. We need to diversify our economy, and the energy industry would be a great place to begin that diversification.

Sharron Angle

#6. Saying that financial literacy means diversification is just another example of the fox teaching the chickens.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Benjamin Graham

#8. Diversification may preserve wealth, but concentration builds wealth.

Warren Buffett

#9. The starting point for energy security today as it has always been is diversification of supplies and sources.

Daniel Yergin

#10. We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. I believe in diversification of income, because you never know what will happen. I'm a slightly paranoid person who thinks things could be ruined at any time.

Eugene Mirman

#12. In order to give these customers what they want within an appropriate timescale, we are committed to developing a broad range of technologies-including plug-in hybrid, electric vehicle and FCV, corresponding to the simultaneous diversification of energy sources.

Yoshikazu Tanaka

#13. As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.

Ernst Mayr

#14. We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

Alan Autry

#15. Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

Fujio Mitarai

#16. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

Warren Buffett

#17. The development of our human resources is an area in which we need to do well as it is decisive in determining the success of our diversification programme.

Hassanal Bolkiah

#18. Global capital is agnostic - it has no loyalties. There's an overhang of capital in the U.S., and the key is yield pickup. What Africa is providing is a diversification play and also opportunities for yield pickup for the investor that's aware of what he or she is doing.

Euvin Naidoo

#19. 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

#20. Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

Ron Chernow

#21. Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.

Martin J. Whitman

#22. Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

Paul Feyerabend

#23. Events and developments that we have observed in 2014, prove that this year will be very difficult for the world economy, but thoughtful economic policy, diversification and unity between the country's leadership and people guarantee that this year will be successful for us.

Ilham Aliyev

#24. I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

Laurence D. Fink

#25. If you want to make a lot of money, resist diversification.

Jim Rogers

#26. Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good process can have the chance to pay off over the long term.

Joel Greenblatt

#27. The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Ron Chernow

#28. There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

Benjamin Graham

#29. The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.

Anatoly Chubais

#30. I like "multi-" ... multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement.

Rossana Condoleo

#31. For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

Alex Berenson

#32. All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

Donald Johanson

#33. The idea of excessive diversification is madness.

Charlie Munger

#34. The three principal trends affecting how we do business in the newspaper production industry might best come under the headings: automation, diversification, distributed print.

Eric Bell

#35. The beauty of diversification is it's about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.

Barry Ritholtz

#36. Diversification is everything. You get past "this" by having lots of "that"s.

James Altucher

#37. Diversification is a hedge for ignorance

William O'Neil

#38. Product diversification comes into the mix as customers continue to strive for new revenue streams and a better USP.

Eric Bell

#39. The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.

Nicola Sturgeon

#40. The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

David Harvey

#41. In many instances, automation in itself facilitates more diversification opportunities, in freeing up production capacity and enabling shorter run, more targeted copies, and it can also be essential in the interface with additional and new processes such as web drying, inkjetting etc.

Eric Bell

#42. I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

Ron Chernow

#43. Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.

Warren Buffett