“It is one thing to coolly design a portfolio strategy on a sheet of paper or computer monitor, and quite another to actually deploy it.”

—  William J. Bernstein

Source: The Four Pillars of Investing (2002), Chapter 4, The Perfect Portfolio, p. 115.

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