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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… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
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Much of the blame for the Great Recession lies with abuses in the housing market - namely the creation of risky and… — Lisa Madigan Copy Share Image
If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
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A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
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People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
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What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man I respect the most in the business - and he's in the hedge fund business - is probably Stan Druckenmiller.… — Julian Robertson Copy Share Image
People far too often associate derivatives markets with mere speculation, but there are very legitimate businesses that need derivatives to protect themselves… — Fred Ehrsam Copy Share Image
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Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives… — Mohnish Pabrai Copy Share Image
If you have a company called x and today you feel the price is very high. Next year it could perform very… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
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Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their… — Mark Goulston Copy Share Image
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Shareholder value theory - the destructive idea that companies should be run solely for the benefit of shareholders - has led to… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
We like being private because when there is a downturn, as in 2001 and 2008, we do not reduce people. Also, we… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
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We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
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Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
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