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" Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss. "

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" It's difficult to fix a truly broken business, but when it happens, the returns can be extraordinary. "

" My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock Picking. "

" 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. "

" It's critical to have a disciplined investing approach and stick with it. "

" There is a natural tendency for investors to devote a significant majority of their time to finding new ideas. After all, uncovering great companies selling at great prices is the lifeblood of successful investing. But in the never-ending quest for the next great idea, investors often give short shrift to their existing investments. "

" Netflix is a better company with more upside than we had given it credit for than when we shorted it. "

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" Pence is far too conservative for me, but by all accounts, he's an intelligent, experienced, decent man with no skeletons in his closet. "

" Because I'm a very public figure, everybody knows what my returns are. "

" The key thing when you short is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value. "

" Early in my career, we were just pure bottoms-up stock pickers. "

" As in most subjects relating to money management, there's a wide diversity of opinion on portfolio concentration versus diversification. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one's stocks. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced. "

" While there's always plenty of room for improvement, our government is actually quite effective and efficient. Our military and judicial systems and national parks are the best in the world. Unlike in countries where government corruption is rampant, I've never once been solicited for a bribe. "

" I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated. "

" 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. "

" I am part of the 1 percent of the 1 percent. By that, I mean that I am fortunate to be a wealthy American, and I say, 'It's okay to raise my taxes.' "

" Well-managed companies with independent boards have nothing to fear from activist shareholders. "

" If I bring to light a company that's poisoning customers, defrauding investors, or something like that... there just aren't enough regulators in the world to keep up with all of the fraud and malfeasance that goes on out there, particularly in the little nooks and crannies of the market. "

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" My portfolio consists of many companies I find fundamentally undervalued in which I expect activism to play a role in the value being realised. "

" 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. "