Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident! — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
There's a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can [easily and simply] explain why something's a great business, how and why it's cheap,… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
“Perhaps, since the measurement of potential gain and loss from a particular stock is so subjective, it is easier, if you are a professional… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
“When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
“Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once again, the… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share
