Shane Filan Quotes

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

In any investment, you expect to have fun and make money.

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market; I am an investor.

Trial and error does not work in real estate. It's way too expensive to learn from your own mistakes, you need to learn from others' mistakes.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

I mainly believe in investing in property, creating a balance between property, equity and FDs.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

With each investment you make, you should have the courage and the conviction to place at least ten per cent of your net worth in that stock

Uncertainty is the friend of the buyer of long term values.

Put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

It's bad enough that you have to take market risk. Only a fool takes on the additional risk of doing yet more damage by failing to diversify properly with his or her nest egg. Avoid the problem-buy a well-run index fund and own the whole market.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs painting.

Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag.

There's no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.

I have yet to take capital losses on any company. Then again, it's still early.

The mandate that I got from my investors is to invest. So far, we are on the right track, and it is the right formula to invest in Indonesia.

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

I don't particularly like equities, but I think equities are a better space to be in than bonds.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.