Sentences with phrase «biggest investment mistake»

Chasing the best returns is the biggest investment mistake you can ever make.

Chasing the best or maximum returns is the biggest investment mistake you can ever make.

In The Automatic Millionaire, David Bach writes, «The single biggest investment mistake you can make [is] not using your [retirement] plan and not maxing it out.»

Interestingly, Buffett has recently claimed that his biggest investment mistake was purchasing his company's insurance subsidiaries through Berkshire Hathaway and not through his investment partnership.

One of the biggest investment mistakes I see millennials make is purchasing luxury cars immediately after graduating from college.

BB: All my biggest investment mistakes have a common theme — people.

Each year gets better and I'm no longer making some of the big investment mistakes like attending bad shows or the wrong shows for my work.

Not exact matches

In Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes, authors Gary Belsky and Thomas Gilovich cite a Harvard study of investment habits.

Energy Future, the biggest power company in Texas, can claim an ignominious distinction in the annals of American business history: Warren Buffett considers his nearly $ 2 billion investment in the company's bonds one of the biggest mistakes he's ever made.

«I made a big mistake with this investment by dawdling.»

To that end, Buffett told CNBC on Monday that mixing politics and investment strategies would be a «big mistake.»

Inexperience can cause big mistakes that make a good investment on paper, turn into financial nightmare.

The biggest mistake was an investment in AIG by the Davis Fund which resulted in a $ 2 billion loss for the fund.

I mean, if you look at the investments I did and didn't make - you could say the biggest mistakes I tend to make are: 1) Selling the stocks I like the most too soon and 2) Not buying into stocks with a big upside but some chance of a downside.

The FT article's biggest mistake may be in attributing — even if indirectly — the «decade long rally in gold» to western investment appetite.

To me, not taking the time to invest in yourself and your understanding of an investment is the biggest mistake made by many «investors», so thank you again for emphasizing the importance of that point several times in this post!

On the other hand, betting on high - risk investments raises the odds that you'll make a big mistake and wipe out a chunk of your savings.

But it is a mistake to ignore the short - term altogether because it is the short term that is of primary significance in affecting human emotions, and human emotions matter big time in any complete assessment of investment strategies.

I truly believe obsessing over daily value and not understanding that an investment's strength comes from the underlying cash flow is perhaps the biggest mistake investors make.

Managements can make big mistakes which destroy the investment thesis.

MoneySense: Rona, what would you say are the biggest mistakes that investors make when it comes to their relationship with their investments?

A tiny investment in great books will give a big return and avoid costly mistakes in your real life.

My first thought is that this investment was a BIG mistake.

Avoid the big money mistakes with a proven process to RATE any investment — before you jump into it.

Provide investment guidance to clients while also keeping them from the «big mistake» that can erode investment returns

And Buffett sold GEICO, which was a big mistake because even though he replaced it with something trading at 1 times earnings, the GEICO investment would have produced far more value for him.

I was originally inspired by The 10 Biggest Mistakes Investment Mistakes Canadian Make and The Millionaire Next Door.

He called the investment «a big mistake» and said it was at risk of losing all of its value.

Gary Belsky, author of Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them, takes a look at the most common ways people screw up their investments, including biases and cognitive errors like overconfidence and confirmation bias.

The biggest mistake of the Bitcoin opponents is to consider Bitcoin as an investment.

One of the biggest mistakes home sellers make, whether or not they're downsizing, is not hiring a real estate professional to make the most of their investment.