Jim Lebenthal
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650 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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When they get market timing right once, then they think they can do it again and again.
And Ryan, I have seen wealth destroyed by that.
I've seen people sell at the wrong moments and then try to chase the markets up and up, inevitably getting back in right at the wrong moment.
So more than anything, stay in the market.
It is your time in the market that matters.
The old truism, it's not timing the markets, it's time in the markets.
One corollary to this, and believe me, I can go on for a while, so I want to give you a chance to interrupt me here.
But an important corollary to this is when you're investing and you're talking about being in the market for a long time, you have to be in high quality stocks.
Now, anybody who has watched me on air talk about stocks, they know that I've got a few, you know, flyers in my portfolio.
But out of a portfolio of 30 names, you're talking about less than five that are, I don't want to say speculative because I don't want to be insulting to myself, but maybe have higher risk components to them.
The rest of the portfolio, the 80%, that is tried and true Fortune 100 companies.
They're going to make it through thick and thin.
And I'll close this soliloquy.
Again, I can go on for a while by saying this.
If you take the last five crises that the market has faced, so that's the great financial crisis, that's COVID, that's 9-11.
If you happened to invest just before those downturns, like you got the timing absolutely wrong, but you stayed in.
So you had that downturn, say, in the great financial crisis of greater than 50%, but you stayed in.
Your annualized return from investing at the exact wrong point in time is about 10% for each of the last five crises.
You just have to stay in.
You can only do that with high-quality companies.
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