Alternatives Quote by Joel Greenblatt

“Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don’t lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones.”

Joel Greenblatt

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Figure out what something is worth and pay a lot less.

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We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

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The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

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Remember, it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.

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“Perhaps, since the measurement of potential gain and loss from a particular stock is so subjective, it is easier, if you are a professional…

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Here is part of the tradeoff with diversification. You must be diversified enough to survive bad times or bad luck so that skill and…

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It just seems logical that sticking to investing in only a small number of companies that you understand well, rather than moving down the…

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I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

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“When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment…

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“Graham figured that always using the margin of safety principle when deciding whether to purchase shares of a business from a crazy partner like…

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I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years…

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