Hedge Funds Quotes

“Nature is great at hedging. All kinds of natural disasters can hit a forest - from hurricanes to heat waves to floods to freezing temperatures - and yet the forest can remain intact and continue to thrive year after year and decade after decade. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to hedge our funds the way nature hedges - by cultivating resilience through systems design.”
― Hendrith Smith

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we believe that active capital management is the responsible way to invest. Even passive funds should be actively managed.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“To hedge effectively, you have to reject the silo mentality and instead embrace the systems thinking mentality.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Nature is great at hedging investments. Nature doesn’t hedge by betting for and against the same things. Nature hedges by cultivating resilience.”
― Hendrith Smith

“The wise study the numbers and their ways. The wise count their movements and their stays.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“I try to be a good investment to God. All the good things he’s given me, I aim to multiply and return to him and his purposes a maximum ROI. I’m just a tree in his fruit garden aiming to produce good fruit.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Nature doesn’t hedge by betting for and against the same things. Nature hedges by cultivating resilience. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to hedge by cultivating resilience in our portfolios.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Waste is antithetical to efficiency. You cannot have one while also having the other. In maximizing one, the other will definitely be minimized. In minimizing one, the other will definitely be maximized.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“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

“Gratitude multiplies things to be grateful for. Faith multiplies proof of faithfulness. Love multiplies circumstances that facilitate love.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“In terms of biological systems, efficiency is a matter of life or death. And the same is true in terms of business systems.”
― Hendrith Smith

“One reason nature is efficient is because there is no waste. Everything produced creates value for others and is consumed by others on the basis of value. What one life may discard as not valuable is consumed by another life because of its valuable. And all things produced and consumed are continually upcycled, becoming more valuable each cycle. Perhaps it’s because nature has a capital-centric view of things; everything in nature is capital and produces capital which to varying degrees provides value to all other things in nature. Imagine if economies worked like this. Imagine if investment portfolios worked like this. Imagine if businesses worked like this. What a beautiful world it would be.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A business can drift aimlessly if it is efficient but not effective. A business can lose money excessively if it is effective but not efficient.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school,' says Ackman of the idea. 'That's how I knew that it was a good idea.”
― Maneet Ahuja

“Nature was a quant way before all of these MBAs and Economists were quants. I respect MBAs, and I respect economists. I just happen to respect nature more.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Prices are determined by supply and demand.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Diversification should be an offensive contributor to growth, not just a defensive hedge against loss.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“I'd encourage [you] to think big and be delusional when setting goals. Yes, delusional. The biggest mistake that I made with my first business was I didn't think big enough. I limited my success by just focusing on a small geographic area and focusing on hitting small sales targets. Now when I set my goals, I make sure that they are ridiculous. I prefer to work extremely hard and fall short on my ridiculous goals than to achieve mediocre goals.”
― Warren Cassell Jr., Swim or Drown: Business and Life Lessons I've Learned from the Ocean

“Always Seek Good Growth”
― David Sikhosana

“Can You Get In The Habit?”
― David Sikhosana

“Give people a voice, encourage, motivate and reward them”
― David Sikhosana

“Always believe you are great and that you are the best”
― David Sikhosana

“Growth is only possible when there is inclusivity”
― David Sikhosana

“I dream of a world where we are all financially literate, financially free and we are all investors”
― David Sikhosana

“Always maintain healthy margins of risk, shoulder it & have an upper hand in managing it”
― David Sikhosana

“All of life is Capital stewarded by God. And he allows us to steward some of it according to his purposes. And the more we model him in our stewardship, the more he seems to allow us to steward.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“A good salesman knows you better than you know yourself. If you are Chinese, they will sell you yield. If you’re European, they will stroke your sense of superiority. If you’re an ambitious manager of an American pension fund, sitting on piles of money but bound by rules and regulations, they will find a kosher way for you to become the big swinging dick you always knew you were. And if you are an American hedge fund — a serious fund, not two guys and a Bloomberg — a smart salesman cuts the bullshit and both of you reach an understanding.”
― Katya G. Cohen, The American Spellbound

“...there should be no place in a portfolio for hedge funds. There are lots of reasons, but the main one is simple: Investing in hedge funds is a great way to increase the odds of underperformance.”
― Peter Mallouk, The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them: Getting Investing Right

“I never use hedge funds because I am well aware of what drives future performance, and hedge funds start out with a great disadvantage in every major category: taxes, fees, risk management, transparency and liquidity.”
― Peter Mallouk, The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them: Getting Investing Right

“I asked [Nick Maounis]: “What’s the main goal of your career?” He thought about it deeply in silence and then answered: “To be a billionaire. And also to own a sports team.” Sadly, Maounis never achieved either goal because Amaranth famously imploded the following year.”
― Vivek Ramaswamy, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam