Capital Markets Quotes

“Return on Investment should be holistic.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Capital markets need to reward human progress in addition to profits. The two can be co-collaborators - human progress can amplify profits and profits can amplify human progress.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Mayflower-Plymouth will be the largest Capital Management Company in the world by 2040.”
― Hendrith Smith

“Nature doesn’t have puts on one side and calls on the other side of the same things, nor does it waste energy betting against the same life it works to cultivate. Nature doesn’t insure high risk gambles by trying to be both the casino and the player. Instead, nature insures capital and profits through a variety of complimentary approaches. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to emulate nature in this way with how we approach investing and asset management.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Having too many retail investors present in capital markets causes distortions in valuations.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Market participants are humans, and so are their behaviors.”
― Naved Abdali

“Humans’ reactions are contaminated with their cognitive biases, greed, fear, and survival instinct. However, capital market success requires precisely the opposite behavior of what your intuition is suggesting.”
― Naved Abdali

“Economic conditions may differ from period to period, but human psychology is embedded among us and will not change.”
― Naved Abdali

“Activities of capital markets do not create or abolish money; governments do.”
― Naved Abdali

“In the investment world, greed and fear are the lifeblood. Without these, there would be no economy, no capital market, and no transaction.”
― Naved Abdali

“Every business needs capital. Whether we’re talking about a barbershop or a bank, a boutique e-commerce store or a hotdog stand. Whether we’re talking about a restaurant or a clothing store, a giant like Walmart, or the local bodega that’s owned by a local family. They all need capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing

“The more trustworthy a borrower is, the greater the likelihood that they will return the money lent to them back to the lender with interest. This is why lenders of every kind and size, place a high priority on the character of potential borrowers – it is one of the five key determining factors as to the likelihood of the lender receiving their money back with interest.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing

“A persons trustworthiness in one area of life may not necessarily transfer over to their trustworthiness as a borrower. And a business that can be trusted to do the right thing for its customers may not necessarily be a business that can be trusted to do the right thing for its creditors.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing

“We all really only want to lend our money to people we can trust to pay it back. It’s the same thing with banks and other institutional
lenders.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Capital Acquisition: Small Business Considerations for How to Get Financing

“Ideation is an extremely important part of business.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, Business Ideation: The Five Steps

“But there may never be enough to satisfy shareholders who expect to win back one hundred times their initial twenty billion dollar bet.”
― Douglas Rushkoff, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

“The government wants to keep the capital markets healthy and thriving. They will do whatever in their power to avoid or reverse a recession.”
― Naved Abdali

“Investors need to keep their emotions in check for a successful investment career. It is the most important requirement. It’s even more critical than having access to capital and markets.”
― Naved Abdali

“Greed and fear are both good and healthy for an investor and capital markets as a whole. Emotions are like fire, beneficial if controlled, destructive if wild.”
― Naved Abdali

“Just because markets rise doesn't mean that they will continue to grow or that it is time for them to change direction, yet it is pleasing to see patterns from one period to the next.”
― Coreen T. Sol, Unbiased Investor: Reduce Financial Stress and Keep More of Your Money

“Haramis.” Harami, meaning a “sinner, thief, someone born illicitly.” The word carries a lot of meaning and the Iranians adopted it as well from the Arabic language.

Tara was unzipping her suitcase, ready to take some clothes to take a shower. “Tell that to a trader and he might get a chuckle out of what you said,” Tara said.

“Huh?” Amir had no idea what she meant.

“The word harami, it’s a candlestick pattern.”

“A candlestick pattern? What are you talking about?” Amir was now even more dumbfounded.

“I was bored one day so I read and learned about trading. Stock trading,” Tara said as she started to take a set of clothes out of her suitcase. “Candlestick charts are patterns used by traders to look at price movements in stocks and stuff.” She closed her suitcase up and looked up at Amir. “Harami is a candlestick pattern. It means “skirt steak” in Japanese but it also derives its meaning from the word pregnant. And it basically shows one candlestick engulfing a smaller one. A pattern for traders to analyze which direction the stock or security will go.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish