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" I have encountered thousands of value investors over the years and am constantly struck by their differences - and their similarities. "
Whitney Tilson
Value
Over
Differences
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" Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision. "
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" Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch. "
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" In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not have undertaken. "
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" The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing. "
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" The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk. "
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" There's a real company in Facebook and then a lot of pretenders riding their coat tails. "
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" One of the best places to look for value is what I call 'babies thrown out with the bathwater' - in other words, scour the most out-of-favour sectors for good companies whose stocks have been crushed due to overblown concerns about the industry that do not, in fact, have an impact on the company. "
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Impact
Words
Value
" I believe our schools will actually get better if layoffs are done carefully, such that only the very worst teachers are let go. "
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" Dealing with uncertainty is always a key challenge for investors. But dealing with uncertainty doesn't mean avoiding it - on the contrary, it is often fuzziness about a company's future that creates the type of opportunity bargain-hunting investors cherish. "
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Opportunity
Future
" I'd say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn't try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker. "
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Yourself
You
Money
" As in most subjects relating to money management, there's a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification. "
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Money
Opinion
" My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered. "
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" I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced. "
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Too
Well
" Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't look back on a few great teachers who inspired us, opened up new worlds, and helped make us who we are? "
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Parents
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" It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain. "
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Pain
Nature
" I think that most people who complain about our government have no idea what they're talking about because they've never been to a country with a bad government. "
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People
Government
" No one would suggest completely ignoring news about your investments. Enron investors, for example, would have been well served to sell once early reports of accounting irregularities surfaced. But the key is to keep news in context and act only if further reflection or study indicates that the core thesis for an investment has changed. "
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" It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it. "
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" Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders. "
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Nothing
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" Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are. "
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Because
Very
Public
" Investing is a probabilistic business. Every once in a while, it's sort of like you're throwing six-sided dice, and anything except a one or a two, you're doing well. Statistically speaking, you throw the dice enough times, you're going to throw a one or a two five times in a row, and you're going to look pretty foolish, right? "
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" There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin. "
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Fact
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" We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.' "
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Call
Value
Ourselves
" Mueller is the leading North American provider of water infrastructure and flow control products - things such as fire hydrants, valves, pipes, fittings, and couplings. While this is no doubt a mundane business, it is also an excellent one. "
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American
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" The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically. "
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