If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.

I would admit Im an introvert. I dont know why introverts have to apologize.

Both from the standpoint of stocks and bonds, an investor wants to go where the growth is.

Do you really like a particular stock? Put 10% or so of your portfolio on it. Make the idea count … Good [investment] ideas should not be diversified away into meaningless oblivion.

When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.