Guy Spier Quotes

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• But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem…
• I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.
• The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
• We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
• From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson…
• For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
• Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
• I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did…
• The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.
• One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.

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