Quotes about diversification (16 Quotes)



    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.


    So you put a little Jamaica in the fund, a little South Africa, a little Thailand. In a global crisis, all three will be a dog. But if you're a hedge fund manager, you don't care. You just want to offer as much diversification as possible, with as much yield as possible.

    If I had a thousand major shareholders that I know would be selling stock because of portfolio diversification, I would rather do a secondary offering than have them sell in dribs and drabs. It makes a lot of sense to do it in one fell swoop.




    We're seeing innovation to help individuals save for retirement more easily instead of putting so much reliance on the employee to find the time to do it. The Principal 10 Best winners are taking 401(k) plans and giving them more security with automatic diversification and annuity options,

    A lot of people should not pay attention to the ups and downs daily because clearly they cannot discern the next week or two weeks in terms of trends in the markets. Where do you want to put your money long term, and I stress long term. We always advocate a very strong diversification.




    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.

    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.


    The progress of the industrial age rests on the greater diversification of labor and the use of more elaborate tools and machinery which have increased productivityin other words, saved labor.... In our attempt to cure the social ills, we should not kill the goose that has laid the golden eggs. If our society is sick, it is for other reasons than the conquest by man of the forces of nature.



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