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 live, but you're still an idiot. — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Something out of the ordinary course of business is taking place that creates an investment opportunity. The list of corporate events that can result in big profits for you runs the gamut—spinoffs, mergers, restructurings, rights offerings, bankruptcies, liquidations, asset sales,… — 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,… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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… — Joel Greenblatt Copy Share Image
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
![“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…” quote by Joel Greenblatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ffb/joel-greenblatt-21588_agonizing_there-s-a-clarity-that-comes-with-great_467148.jpg)
