Quote

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Mohnish Pabrai

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mohnish Pabrai
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 12
Businessperson
Financier
Investor
Bombay
Take
Basically
Think
Interested
Misnomer
Thinking
Taking
Lunches
People
Risk
Minimize
Study
Rewarded
Free
Entrepreneurs
Reality
Lunch
Everything
Entrepreneur

More quotes by Mohnish Pabrai

Image
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win tails, I don't lose much.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Mohnish Pabrai
Image
People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.
Mohnish Pabrai