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Seth Klarman Inspirational Quotes (95)

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Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy
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There are no long-term lessons - ever.
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Limit risk with: Deep analysis Bargain purchase Sensitivity analysis.
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Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.
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When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.
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Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.
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As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to panic is still a decision.
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Investing today may well be harder than it has been at any time in our three decades of existence.
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Complexity - limits competition.
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It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.
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Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals.
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Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.
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The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.
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A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.
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When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.
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It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.
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It's awful to have a depression, but it's a great thing to have a depression mentality because it means that we are not speculating, we are not living beyond our means, we don't quit our job to take a big risk because we know we might not get another job. There is something stable about a country, a society built on those values.
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The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
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Macro worries are like sports talk radio. Everyone has a good opinion which probably means that none of them are good.
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Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.
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Investors should always keep in mind that the most important metric is not the returns achieved but the returns weighed against the risks incurred. Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night.
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We are big fans of fear, and in investing it is clearly better to be scared than sorry.
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Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.
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Depressions aren't good but the depression mentality is good.
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