Investment Strategy Quotes

“If you wanna learn about investment yield, go meditate in a forest.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Permaculture Investing™ is an investment strategy based on achieving the goals of (a) long-term Return on Investment, (b) consistent income and (c) resilient growth for investors, by combining Permaculture philosophy with various traditional approaches to investing.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Every transaction, irrespective of how low the price is, proves one fact; that there is a buyer on the other side. Somebody is buying.”
― Naved Abdali

“It is not essential to know when the market will go down. The important thing is what you do when it does.”
― Naved Abdali

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we believe in having a long term view with investments. We believe that maximizing long-term ROI requires having a big picture view in terms of business and economics. We believe that equity without income is unnatural – so every portfolio should generate consistent income. We believe in prioritizing not just growth, but also resilience. And we believe that we should employ a multitude of traditional investment approaches toward the achievement of our investment goals.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Investing, The Permaculture Way: Mayflower-Plymouth's 12 Principles of Permaculture Investing

“Working for someone is helping them build their dreams. Work anyway for there is profit in labor.”
― Martin Uzochukwu Ugwu

“If you are incredibly talented and extremely lucky, you will beat the market most of the time. Everybody else will be better off investing in low-cost broad-market index funds.”
― Naved Abdali

“The more investors do active trading, the more it makes sense to do passive investing.”
― Naved Abdali

“If a strategy is widely available for free or is offered on a small payment can never work. A secret is not a secret if a YouTube commercial offers it for a small payment of a hundred dollars.”
― Naved Abdali

“Investors are in the market to make money, not to prove or disprove academic discussions. Follow what works for you, and let others follow what works for them.”
― Naved Abdali

“Your portfolio, leveraged or not, must be constructed in such a way that not only will it survive the bad days but thrive in a market meltdown.”
― Naved Abdali

“Mutual Fund investments are subject to market risk. This is a quite generic term. But how much risk it really takes and what is the reward with respect to the risk it takes?”
― Jayant Parida