You really must look at your entire portfolio and not look just at the past quarter or even the last year. Extraordinary expectations have been built into fund performance for almost six years now. You've witnessed returns of 20 percent or more in most stock equity funds, but in some cases they're just not sustainable.
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they're not poli... LAURIE LAPAN Any time you let a stock run up to 40 percent of your portfolio, you have to have a lot of convictio... SCOTT COOLEY (Cummins) had higher revenue and slightly lower profitability for the quarter, but even so it's a ve... ELI LUSTGARTEN In the game of football, there's a lot of passion involved. To have a young man missing from your fa... JEFF CORDELL I have proposed to lower the appraisal cap from 10 percent to three percent on all residential prope... DAN PATRICK I just want to let you know that when I look into my future, I see nothing but you.” That’s what... MEG CABOT Years ago, Fidelity told you not to buy because of a manager, but because Fidelity as a whole always... LEWIS ALTFEST When you look at the continuity among staff and players, who have won in the past, expectations rise... FRANK CIGNETTI There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you're walking down the street, o... MARY-KATE OLSEN The bankruptcy law was not intended to attack physicians but it is the law of unintended consequence... AARON FARMER They supply almost all the largest telecom companies in the world with some of the backbone products... TONY DWYER I think just to look at ratings compared to past years, there's a lot more to the story. ED GOREN It's made the (GM) job tougher and more unpopular. Because the easier way to go is to sign the popul... RICH MCKAY When we're not shooting the ball as well as we have, and we're not getting the looks like we have in... LYNDSEY MEDDERS Legg Mason is one stock you can buy and put away. It generates consistent returns, almost like Bill ... TODD CAMPBELL Legg Mason is one stock you can buy and put away. It generates consistent returns, almost like Bill ... TODD CAMPBELL I'm not sure the funds have proven themselves, ... I'd really be hesitant for anybody to take a look... KUNAL KAPOOR I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have t... EDDIE MURPHY The key message here is sometimes you have to look not just at your own tax return, but that of your... KATHY BURLISON I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at y... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN We're seeing a lot of increased activity but at this point, it doesn't look really significant. It m... DR. LINDA ROSEN The rule has been in place for 20 or more years. The most common thing I've heard is, 'Is that a new... DAVE WAGNER These are just weird times, but then the last 20 years have been kind of weird for me. It's just a m... COLIN HAY I've known about this little guy for 20 years, ... It's just a tough little plant. It's not much to ... BOB DAY For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and... DAVID CASSIDY
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Imagination is more important than kn... ROBERT BURTON Build castles in the air. ROBERT BURTON For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world
knows. ROBERT BURTON No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. ROBERT BURTON See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea,
one river, and see all. ROBERT BURTON Penny wise, pound foolish. ROBERT BURTON I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quarte... GARY BURTON I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played... GARY BURTON I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren'... GARY BURTON I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no ot... GARY BURTON I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check someth... GARY BURTON It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new ... GARY BURTON I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something d... GARY BURTON I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play... GARY BURTON I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we... GARY BURTON Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei... GARY BURTON There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla... GARY BURTON It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough... GARY BURTON But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam... GARY BURTON Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi... GARY BURTON We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved.... DAN BURTON