Don Cassidy Quotations

Do what you have to do to figure it out. You're never going to be perfect at this, but nobody is going to care about your money as much as you. The good news is, once you start winning the battle, it gets to be fun. It's like watching your favorite team win.

We said it would be a stock-picker's year, and it was. Investors were particularly fickle and short-term driven.

The smaller, the better was the watchword in the first quarter. It's a sign that investors are less risk-averse than they have been in a long time.

The long-term virtue of this idea, what you'll begin to create, is a terrific lifetime habit that will give a person a great deal of lasting benefit. That weighs a lot more than the short-term thrill of tearing off the wrapping paper.

People will feel they did not make a lot of money (this year), and yet they may well see some significant capital gains taxes due on their funds holdings.

It's my opinion he will get a green card. I'd be very shocked if he didn't.

This year the month's psychological climate also benefited from a solid rally in stocks that had begun in mid-October.

It's very important to realize that while current gratification and comfort are a lot of fun, nobody is going to take care of you in your older stages of life except you. You've got to be your own angel.

There are lots of different kinds of investing nicely matched against the structure of a closed end fund, that are not matched through other things. But this is not something you necessarily buy and hold forever. You've got to watch interest rates ... and be somewhat involved. But do you need to be an expert? No.

We and just about everybody else thought that large-cap funds would start to take over in the first quarter, but it didn't happen.