Defensiveness Quotes

There's a lot more uncertainty now... And we've had 18 months of price advances -- that could just be setting us up for a renewal of the defensiveness the market goes through during the May-Oct. period. - Sam Stovall

The rotation has more to do with defensiveness and dividend yield, than with the actual quality of the investments themselves. - Sam Stovall

The other thing that prevents people standing up... is a kind of cultural defensiveness. The kind of not-washing-your-dirty-linen-in-public argument. That we in the Muslim world are under attack. And, as a result, we put up defenses. And we don't criticize even the worst people in the family. Because if it's your family, and you happen to have an idiot child, you don't tell the world it's an idiot child. - Salman Rushdie

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. - Carl Rogers

I think bonds are appropriate for anybody that is close to retirement or is already retired and feels like they need that security and that defensiveness... appropriate diversification for a lot of people. But for people who are young and who can put money away for a long time, they really ought to be overwhelmingly in stocks. - Robert Robbins