Joel Greenblatt Quotes

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• Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.
• There’s a virtuous cycle when people have to defend challenges to their ideas. Any gaps in thinking or analysis become clear pretty quickly when smart…
• Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over…
• So one way to create an attractive risk/reward situation is to limit downside risk severely by investing in situations that have a large margin of…
• 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,…
• 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…
• The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.
• Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.
• 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…
• The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.
• Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and good…
• Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

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