chapter 17

Twelve qualities that make a good portfolio manager

‘The right temperament is more important than IQ’

 

‘[Lloyd George] had that deep original instinct which peers through the surface of words and things – the vision which sees dimly but surely the other side of the brick wall or which follows the hunt two fields before the throng. Against this industry, learning, scholarship, eloquence, social influence, wealth, reputation, an ordered mind, plenty of pluck counted for less than nothing. It was the very gift which the products of Eton and Balliol had always lacked – the one blessing denied them by their fairy godmother, the one without which all other gifts are so frightfully cheapened. He had the ‘seeing eye’’

Churchill

I believe ...

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