Bargains Quote by Seth Klarman Download Open image “Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.” — Seth Klarman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bargains Greater Intelligent Investing Negotiation Revulsion Stigma
“This cultural Left thinks more about stigma than about money, more about deep and hidden psychosexual motivations than about shallow and evident greed.” — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals. — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
“The desire to avoid rejection at all costs, to avoid confrontation and conflict, the desire to attempt to accept everything equally and to make… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Often, people with a Scarcity Mentality harbor secret hopes that others might suffer misfortune—not terrible misfortune, but acceptable misfortune that would keep them “in… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim. — Lavrenti Lopes Copy Share Image
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about… — Seth Klarman Copy Share
Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
There is an old saying, "How did you go bankrupt?" And the answer is, "Gradually, and then suddenly." The impending fiscal crisis in the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Ultimately, nothing should be more important to investors than the ability to sleep soundly at night. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett once wrote that value investing is like an inoculation--it either takes or it doesn't--and when you explain to somebody what it is… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that… — Seth Klarman Copy Share
Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
I have thoroughly tried school-keeping, and found that my expenses were in proportion, or rather out of proportion, to my income,for I was obliged to dress and train, not to say think and believe, accordingly, and I lost my time into the bargain. As I did not teach for the good of my fellow-men, but simply for a livelihood, this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
You don't bargain with terrorists. You don't appease terrorists. And anybody who believes that this is about something we've done has to ask themselves… — Michael Chertoff Copy Share Image
To love unconditionally requires no contracts, bargains or agreements. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called "right to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. — Samir Geagea Copy Share Image
Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches; their burden would be too heavy for us; we could not sacrifice, as they do,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Off-the-rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anymore. — Francoise Giroud Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
