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" The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk. "
Whitney Tilson
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" We call ourselves 'opportunistic value investors.' "
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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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" Shorting saved my butt in 2008... Shorting kept me in the game. It generates cash when the market's crashing. And that's what you want when the market's crashing - cash. "
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" You just have to approach every day and say, 'If you were starting fresh today, what would my portfolio look like?' So that's how we think about it. "
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" It's difficult to fix a truly broken business, but when it happens, the returns can be extraordinary. "
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" Small-company stocks, like any asset class, can get picked over from time to time, but there are fundamental reasons why diligently mining them with an eye for unrecognised value can get market-beating returns. "
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" The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than your analysis shows it is worth. "
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" If you look at the history of technology gadget makers, hardware makers, it's littered with the corpses of Palm and RIM and companies like that. "
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You
" Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk. "
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" I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated. "
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Teachers
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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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Best
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" When high-growth companies slow down, growth and momentum junkies often sell indiscriminately, which can create great opportunities for value investors. Just be careful not to anchor on the stock's previous price or earnings multiple, which are no longer relevant. "
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Growth
Great
" The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value. "
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Value
Sure
Key
" Netflix is a better company with more upside than we had given it credit for than when we shorted it. "
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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
" 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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Today
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" In the game of politics, both parties are sometimes guilty of passing really stupid laws that, in reality, are purely symbolic and have no real impact on anyone. "
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Reality
Game
Impact
" 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
Fire
Control
" While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns. "
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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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Riding
Real
Facebook
" There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system. "
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System
Terrible
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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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Human Nature
Pain
Nature
" Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers. "
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Were
Stock
Career
" 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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News
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" While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not work out that way. Markets, technology, and businesses change too quickly to put portfolios on autopilot. "
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" Many significant stock-price inefficiencies can occur when a company is spun off. "
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" The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility. "
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Which
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" Assessing management quality is clearly one of the most important aspects of an investment decision. "
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Quality
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" 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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