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Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.

Martin J. Whitman

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Martin J. Whitman
Age: 93 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 2018
Died: April 16
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Everything
Variables
Really
Rarely
Count
Investing
Noise
Four
Three
Else

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