Robert D. Arnott quotes

“Design a portfolio you are not likely to trade... akin to premarital counseling advice; try to build a portfolio that you can live with for a long, long time.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

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“The best investment opportunities are often scary.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

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“Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“Whatever is cheap became cheap by treating us badly in the past, but is priced to deliver superior returns.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“Diversify. But carve out 10 to 20 percent for the most unloved part of the market: emerging markets value.”
-- Robert D. Arnott

Source : Source: www.bloomberg.com

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“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“How long does getting thin take?”

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”

“Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.”

“Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.”

Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor

“Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.”

“He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.”

“Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.”

“My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.”