Masha Gordon

Quotes

• “One of the key things is to understand there are no limits to your knowledge (and) understanding what you can do.”
• “Very difficult thing to do. If you look at performance record of managers, being human hurts you and 80% of managers under-perform benchmark over short- and long-term period, it's tough game.”
• “I think you need to be able to focus on the secular, i.e. focus on big trends because there is so much noise that various issues bring that clearly influence the price movement in the near-term but ultimately doesn't shift the needle.”
• “But it's difficult, we are humans, that's why maybe machines at some point will be better at optimizing the information flow, optimizing for judgment and crowding of the market and may come up with better portfolios.”
• “It's having this trust in people around you; when you're thrown an opportunity - embracing it, though it may be really scary, because at the end of the day, you can do it - you have a toolbox being a professional. It's all about just breathing deeply and having allies, so having a team, you can never do stuff like that on your own”
• “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”

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Key dates

Born

10 November 1974

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Masha

Family name

Gordon

Gender

female

Citizenship

Russia

Place of birth

North Ossetia–Alania

Educated at

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

Employer

ALROSA

Languages spoken

Russian

Sport

mountaineering

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