I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once again, the secret to success in following the formula strategy is patience, a quality in short supply for… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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, why it's cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You're never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say,… — 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 Image
Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, since the measurement of potential gain and loss from a particular stock is so subjective, it is easier, if you are a professional or academic, to use a concept like volatility as a substitute or a replacement for risk than to use some other measure. Whatever the reason for everyone else’s general abdication of common sense, your job remains… — 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 Image
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 Image
I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
