Ibbotson Asset Quotes & Sayings

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation. — Roger G. Ibbotson

You can do anything you want to. Follow your dreams; because if you say you can't do it, you'll spend the rest of your life proving it. — Jean Nidetch

We can extrapolate from the study that for the long term individual investor who maintains a consistent asset allocation and leans toward index funds, asset allocation determines about 100% of performance. — Roger G. Ibbotson

Nothing is as frightening as the thought that only blackness will greet you when you leave this life. — David Dalglish

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond. — George Bernard Shaw

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us. — Jose Saramago

Unrequited love is the best kind of all. But I can tell you with certainty, Robbie, that the other kind of love, the kind I received from your father for more than two decades, is far more necessary. — Jan Ellison

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. — Bruce Lee

History is defined by people who don't really understand what they are defining. — Chuck Klosterman

An absolute monarch who believes in free will, isn't that against the rules?" Onilwyn asked.
"No," I said, my face buried against Adair's skin, "it's not. Not against my rules." My voice was beginning to drag with that edge of sleep.
"I think I will like your rules," Onilwyn said and his voice, too, was growing heavy.
"The rules, yes," Rhys said, "but the housework is a bitch. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Here was my lesson in the reach of veterinary medicine, in how an animal doctor may not be the one standing up when disaster strikes and someone shouts, 'Is there a doctor in the house?' but occasionally, if he or she is lucky, a vet can help heal a sick loved one. — Nick Trout