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Kenneth Fisher


American
November 29, 1950
Businessman
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The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.


Kenneth Fisher
Tags: World Small Stay
Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.
Kenneth Fisher
Many follow a rule of thumb - no more than 5% in one stock. But that's not the entrepreneurial road to riches.
Kenneth Fisher
Tags: More Than Many
I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield curve is not stimulative; flattening the yield curve is anti-stimulative.
Kenneth Fisher
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.
Kenneth Fisher
You may have seen my firm's ads screaming, 'I Hate Annuities.' Folks ask why we run them. Simple: Because I do.
Kenneth Fisher
Tags: You Because Them
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you've been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over.
Kenneth Fisher
Tags: You Up Been
Indeed, bull markets are fueled by successive waves of prior skeptics finally capitulating as their fears fade. Eventually, fear turns to euphoria, and that's the stuff of bubbles.
Kenneth Fisher
To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.
Kenneth Fisher
Tags: Me Back Big
Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market.
Kenneth Fisher
Tags: Than Being Much
Hundreds of investors ask me questions each year about the dilemmas they confront. Their worst problem? Uncertainty. They are traumatized and become emotional or confused to the state of inaction. Even worse, they try to solve a short-term problem in a way that hurts them financially in the long run.
Kenneth Fisher
Tags: Me About Them