David Dreman Quotes

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• Analysts have always been overly optimistic.
• One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices.…
• I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value ratios…
• I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'
• If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.
• Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.
• Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong…
• Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.
• Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
• Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A course of investment,…
• Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.
• Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest…

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