60 Quotes by Kenneth Fisher


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    What is the most common investor mistake? Trading - getting in and getting out at all the wrong times, for all the wrong reasons.

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    If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.

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    Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

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    The average mutual fund holding period for equity or fixed income is only about three years. It's too short.

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    When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention.

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    I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

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    Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.

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