Jeremy Siegel quotes

“Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.”
-- Jeremy Siegel

Source : Jeremy J. Siegel (1998). “Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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“You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?”
-- Jeremy Siegel

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“The good thing about the dividend-paying stocks is, first of all you have stocks, which are real assets if we have some inflation. I think we're going to have 2%, 3% maybe 4%. That's a sweet spot for stocks. Corporations do well with that. It gives them pricing power. Their assets move up with prices. I'm not fearful of that inflation.”
-- Jeremy Siegel

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“It can be shown that maximum diversification is achieved by holding each stock in proportion to its value to the entire market (italics added)... Hindsight plays tricks on our minds... often distorts the past and encourages us to play hunches and outguess other investors, who in turn are playing the same game. For most of us, trying to beat the market leads to disastrous results... our actions lead to much lower returns than can be achieved by just staying in the market.”
-- Jeremy Siegel

Source : Jeremy J. Siegel (1994). “Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-term Growth”, Irwin Professional Publishing

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“Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.”
-- Jeremy Siegel

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“The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.”
-- Jeremy Siegel

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“By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.”

“There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.”

“I invented the historical spy novel.”

“Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.”

“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Source : Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96

“Stop spending your time; start investing your time.”

“...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals”

“In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose”

“Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.46, Faber & Faber

“The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.