21 Quotes by Michael LeBoeuf

Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

A Financial Research Corporation study determined that the expense ratio is the only reliable predictor of future mutual fund performance.

The most important key to successful investing can be summed up in just two words-asset allocation.

We know that by simply changing our allocation between stocks and bonds, we can lessen the amount of volatility in our portfolio until we reach our comfortable sleep level.

Knowing nothing about investing might be a benefit. You won't have to unlearn many popular beliefs propagated by Wall Street and the media that aren't true.

Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.

It's important for you to understand that stock and bonds go up-and they go down. You need to be comfortable with that fact.

An asset allocation plan is based on your personal circumstances, goals, time-horizon, and need and willingness to take risk.

All of us live at the feeling level, and our feelings are in large part a result of the way we perceive things. You observe or are told something, you interpret it, and only then do you have a reaction at the feeling level. The point is that feeling is preceded by perception, and all of us are capable of controlling our interpretation [the associations and assumptions] of what we see. If we can control our interpretation, then it logically follows that we can exercise some control over our feelings as well.