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You have to learn to profit from market fluctuations rather than suffer from them.
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Francois Rochon
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Volatility is often a symptom of risk but is not a risk in and of itself. Volatility obscures the future but does not necessarily determine the future.
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Peter Bernstein
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It is not the market that is rising or falling at any moment, even if we commonly speak as though it were. In truth, prices move in response to the buying and selling decisions of countless investors, who are constantly considering the likely decisions of countless others.
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Peter Bernstein
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Quotations fluctuate constantly, reacting often illogically to all sorts of temporary and even trivial influences.
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Benjamin Graham
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The goal is to make good returns with less risk. Risk is not the same as volatility. It’s very hard to measure risk.
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Michael Price
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People, it turns out, are not that averse to risk. For many reasons, they are not opposed to risk, but they are opposed to losing and the possibility of loss plays a very significant part in their decision.
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Daniel Kahneman
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Volatility matters, because it defines the uncertainty of the price at which an asset will be liquidated.
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Peter Bernstein
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The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a liability whereby its periodic aberrations, in turn, formulate your judgments.
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Warren Buffett
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I am willing to trade the pains (forget about the pleasures) of substantial short term variance in exchange for maximization of long term performance. However, I am not willing to incur risk of substantial permanent capital loss in seeking to better long term performance.
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Warren Buffett
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Market prices for stocks fluctuate at great amplitudes around intrinsic value but, over the long term, intrinsic value is virtually always reflected at some point in market price.
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Warren Buffett
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Prices change when events are different from what the market has expected them to be.
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Peter Bernstein
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If you think of the stock market as a cauldron of minestrone soup that occasionally somebody sticks a ladle in and stirs up, it takes a while before all the vegetables float back to the level that they were at before.
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Seth Klarman
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Volatility is not risk. And historic volatility does not necessarily project future volatility.
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Seth Klarman
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The daily blips of the market are, in fact, noise -- noise that is very difficult for most investors to tune out.
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Seth Klarman
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No matter how calm you are, no matter how long term an investor you are, no matter what your horizons, when the market is jumping around, you feel uncertainty in your gut and it's hard to resist that.
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Peter Bernstein
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Volatility gets you in the gut. There's no question that when prices are jumping around, you feel different from when they're stable.
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Peter Bernstein
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Volatility provokes the constant dread that some investors know more than we do, making us fearful of ignoring such powerful price movements.
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Peter Bernstein
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Many people pride themselves on being "long-term investors," but acting deliberately when prices are bouncing around is not so easy.
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Peter Bernstein
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One point movements may be likened to the ripples of the stock market, whose occurrence may be influenced by so great a multitude of factors that it is impossible to forecast them. Ten-point movements may perhaps be compared to waves.
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Philip Carret
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Long-term bonds can be almost as volatile as stocks. They have their own corrections.
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Peter Lynch
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It's worth reminding ourselves from time to time that gyrations in a stock price may tell us absolutely nothing about the prospects of the company involved.
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Peter Lynch
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No one can predict with any certainty which way the next 1,000 points will be. Market fluctuations, while no means comfortable, are normal.
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Peter Lynch
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The real problem is not finding a good fund manager, it's finding the right time horizon for your investing and what your temperament is for volatility.
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Peter Lynch
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Individual stocks may obviously pursue courses widely dissimilar.
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Philip Carret
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Day-to-day fluctuations in the profits of existing investments, which are obviously of an ephemeral and non-significant character, tend to have an altogether excessive, and even an absurd, influence on the market.
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John Maynard Keynes
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I think that the business about volatility being risk is a con job which was perpetrated primarily because volatility is machinable.
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Howard Marks
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The problem is not whether price changes should be disregarded -- because clearly they should not be -- but rather in what way can the investor and the security analyst deal intelligently with the price changes which take place.
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Benjamin Graham
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Real investment risk is measured not by the percent that a stock may decline in price in relation to the general market in a given period, but by the danger of a loss of quality and earning power through economic changes or deterioration in management.
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Benjamin Graham
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The idea of measuring investment risks by price fluctuations is repugnant to me, for the very reason that it confuses what the stock market says with what actually happens to the owners' stake in the business.
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Benjamin Graham
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The higher the quality of a company the more inescapable is the speculative component in its price, and the more subject it is to wide price variations.
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Benjamin Graham
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The obvious fact about security prices to any student of the market is that they fluctuate.
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Philip Carret
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I don't think volatility is an altogether irrelevant proxy for risk, even though, to a cool, dispassionate investor with a long-term time horizon, volatility is wonderful.
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Peter Bernstein
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I would like to see more volatility in the markets. Small shocks remind us that a bigger shock might occur. And, we protect ourselves to some extent.
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Myron Scholes
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