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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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Seth Klarman
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 21
New York City
New York
Seth Andrew Klarman
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The near absence of bargains works as a reverse indicator for us. When we find there is little worth buying, there is probably much worth selling.
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To a value investor, investments come in three varieties: undervalued at one price, fairly valued at another price, and overvalued at still some higher price. The goal is to buy the first, avoid the second, and sell the third.
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If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
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We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.
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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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I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another
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Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage.
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People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.
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Complexity - limits competition.
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Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.
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Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.
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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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Investment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.
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Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.
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Benjamin Graham wrote, Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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In reality, no one knows what the market will do trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
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If you can remember that stocks aren't pieces of paper that gyrate all the time --they are fractional interests in businesses -- it all makes sense.
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Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.
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