Jeremy Grantham, a British investor and philanthropist, co-founded investment firm Grantham, Mayo and van Otterloo.
With an endowment through the Grantham Foundation and his Environmental Trust, he supports left-wing environmental groups.
Notably, his firm invested significantly in oil and gas, defending that civilization depends on oil.
Born in 1938, Grantham’s environmental awareness grew post visits to the Amazon and Borneo, leading to the foundation of his environmental charity.
He supports organizations like Greenpeace, Sierra Club and the Environmental Defense Fund.
Once considering arrest during a pipeline protest, he pledged $1 billion to combat climate change in 2019.
Criticizing modern capitalism, he sees Trump’s presidency as corporate-driven, opposing the Paris Agreement withdrawal and tax cuts for the wealthy.
He funds left-wing media, countering the right-wing’s influence.
I have listed below some of the famous quotes by Jeremy Grantham.
Jeremy Grantham Quotes on Investing and Stock Market
Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
The stock market is overpriced. Everything is overpriced. Junk is king. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
If stocks are attractive and you don’t buy, you don’t just look like an idiot, you are an idiot. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
The pure administration of Graham-and-Doddery really needs a long-term lock-up like Warren Buffett has, or it will have occasional quite dreadful client problems. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognize the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. Its shocking. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Volatility is a symptom that people have no idea of the underlying value. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Best Jeremy Grantham Quotes
The language ‘It’s too late’ is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It’s too late for the dodo and for people who’ve starved to death already, but it’s not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
I think I’m right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we’re running out of good, arable land. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
You can’t run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy? ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Famous Jeremy Grantham Quotes
Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven’t got a clue. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
By background I’m both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
You don’t get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets. And if the assets you bought got pushed up in price simply because they were risky, then you are not going to be rewarded for taking a risk; you are going to be punished for it. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Top Jeremy Grantham Quotes
Think how weird profit margins are: We’ve got high unemployment and financial crises – and world record profit margins. People think the American market is very cheap. We don’t. The market quite incorrectly gives full credit to today’s earnings. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain. The question is only whether it takes 30 years or 70 years. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline. ~ Jeremy Grantham.
