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If you own a portfolio of stocks, you must learn to sell the worst performers first and keep the best a little longer.

Long-term investment success is almost totally a function of how one emotionally handles declines in the equity market, as opposed to how one's portfolio handles them.

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

The greater the potential for reward in the value portfolio, the less risk there is.

Portfolios are everything, promises are nothing. Do the work.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

The trick is to take risks and be paid for taking those risks, but to take a diversified basket of risks in a portfolio.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Never ask anyone for their opinion, forecast, or recommendation. Just ask them what they have—or don’t have—in their portfolio.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.

You need to really scrub your investment portfolios, because I guarantee you, many of you are going to find them chock-full of subprime carbon assets.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.

Both cheap value stocks and more glamorous growth stocks can work well in a portfolio - if done right.

I do know that, you know, Donald Trump has a global portfolio, and many global investors are in Russia.

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.