Keeping things in perspective.

I have a couple of interesting quotes and a chart that were sent to me today by Richard Rouse, Director of Corporate Finance at Sequoia Financial in Melbourne.

I thought they were worth sharing.

Also tomorrow I will have an interview with the CEO of OpenLearning [ASX:OLL].

OpenLearning is a course design/creation platform as well as a marketplace for the educators to promote their courses direct to students.

OpenLearning currently says it has more than 1.74 million learners worldwide across over 7,900 courses provided by 62 education providers.

I will be chatting with Founder and CEO Adam Brimo about why he believes their offering puts them in a unique space and how they'll gain from the current shift to online learning.

"Sharemarkets and all asset markets will bottom out well before news starts to show hope. By the time we get the sense we're getting on top of this problem markets could be up 15 to 20 per cent. I think that's extremely likely given how fast they've fallen. No one can survive [income returns] on cash rates for very long. So money will cycle back into the market quicker than we typically see coming out of bear markets."

Ben Clark TMS Capital, AFR

“There have been four great buying opportunities in my adult lifetime. The first was in 1973 and ’74, the second was in 1982, the third was in 1987 and the fourth was in 2008 and 2009. And this is the fifth one.”

Bill Miller, CNBC’s “The Exchange.”

The chart below is also a great reminder of perspective!

Keep looking for opportunity.

Phil Carey