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“Proper diversification means investing in uncorrelated assets, and investing in multiple assets needs multiple sets of knowledge, more hours of research, and more market
following. It is definitely more work for an investor.”
Naved Abdali

“It is a common misconception that if you diversify, you don’t need to learn anything. Just buy a bunch of stocks, and you will be good. Nothing can be further from the truth.”
Naved Abdali

“No amount of diversification can replace investment research. If you want to invest, you have to learn.”
Naved Abdali

“Selecting twenty to thirty good stocks in unrelated industries is not an easy task. It takes immense efforts to follow twenty shares, so investors take the shortcut. They try to replace the efforts with more shares, hundreds of those.”
Naved Abdali

“Diversification does not guarantee protection from losses. It provides a weighted-average return of the portfolio.”
Naved Abdali

“Proper diversification can be achieved with a handful of assets. On the other hand, a poorly selected portfolio with hundreds of stocks and bonds can be inadequate for diversification purposes.”
Naved Abdali

“The funny thing about using the last transaction price as a proxy for the fair value is; that even the two people, buyer, and seller, who caused the transaction do not agree that the transaction price is the fair value of that stock. They have opposite views about the real value.”
Naved Abdali

“Always remember, the minority dictates the price. A company may have billions of shareholders, but it only takes one shareholder to change the price.”
Naved Abdali

“Prices are adjusted up to the cumulative perception of risk of all market participants.”
Naved Abdali

“The perceived risk and actual risk are two different things.”
Naved Abdali

“If you decide to buy a stock solely based on price action, you cannot and will never have any faith in the company’s business.”
Naved Abdali

“If your bull case to buy a stock is “a sharp price drop” or "price is going to the moon”, you don’t have a bull case.”
Naved Abdali

“Always write down all the reasons of why you are buying an asset. Review the list periodically and only sell when the majority of reasons are not valid anymore.”
Naved Abdali

“Every all-time high of the stock market proves that the market has eventually recovered from all downturns, 100% of the time. This strategy is the only one that worked every time without a single failure for centuries.”
Naved Abdali

“Capital efficiently and frequently flows between bonds and stocks. It pays to keep an eye on yields offered by these markets.”
Naved Abdali

“Mandatory allocation of capital between bonds and stocks by mutual funds creates tremendous short-term opportunities for investors.”
Naved Abdali

“The stock market, as a whole, has and will recover from every downturn.”
Naved Abdali

“There is an excellent characteristic of stock investment that it can only go to zero.”
Naved Abdali

“When you buy a stock, you buy a piece of business, not a quote from a broker. As long as the company is doing good, your investment is safe.”
Naved Abdali

“Generally, a cheap stock is cheap for a reason. If you don’t know the reason, you will be better off investing your capital elsewhere.”
Naved Abdali

“Trading is buying and selling to exploit a change in the price. Investing is acquiring assets for economic reasons.”
Naved Abdali

“It is always better to avoid hyped stocks and desire to double your money in no time.”
Naved Abdali

“Wait for the price to come to your desired level, and then buy it. If it goes down further, buy more.”
Naved Abdali

“Long-term price growth has three factors: yield, inflation, and business growth.”
Naved Abdali

“Nothing wrong with buying high PE stocks; however, expected business growth must justify the high price.”
Naved Abdali

“The share buyback is not always a good indicator; look deeper.”
Naved Abdali

“in a rising price environment, party culture and a gambling mindset take over. People think it is easy to make money, and it is fun. The stock market is a big giant casino
where the odds are in favor of gamblers. The more you play, the more you win. However, the facts are precisely the opposite.”
Naved Abdali

“Buy your assets after crossing your heart, with heart & keep these close to your heart.”
Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Dividends paying stocks or companies that have done so consistently over a period of time may be a great investment option to receive a share in established organizations”
David Sikhosana, Time Value of Money

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