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"While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually
a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis,
pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology."
Seth A. Klarman
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"If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd."
John Templeton
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"Investing is one sphere of life and activity, where victory, security and success is always to the minority and never to the majority."
John M. Keynes
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"Most investors are concerned, not with what an investment is really worth to a man who buys it ‘for keeps’,
but with what the market will value it at, under the influence of mass psychology, three months or a year hence."
John M. Keynes
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"In the short-run, the market is a voting machine - reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money,
not intelligence or emotional stability - but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine."
Benjamin Graham
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"Charlie and I look for companies that have: a) a business we understand; b) favorable long-term economics;
c) able and trustworthy management; and d) a sensible price tag."
Warren E. Buffett
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"A truly great business must have an enduring ‘moat’ that protects excellent returns on invested capital."
Warren E. Buffett
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"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
Warren E. Buffett
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"To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different directions as compared
with a substantial stake in a company where one’s information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy."
John M. Keynes
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"In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way
to predict what the market will do, one must follow a value philosophy at all times."
Seth A. Klarman
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"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.
The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell."
John M. Templeton
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"The long-range non-forecasting programs used by our clients are designed to profit from stock market cycles
without the need for predicting either the timing or extent of such cycles."
John M. Templeton