Avoidance Quote by Seth Klarman Download Open image “Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.” — Seth Klarman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoidance Cornerstones Investing Investment Loss Philosophy
The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
The principle of investing is that by use you possess and gain, by disuse you decline and lose. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Warren Buffett likes to say that the first rule of investing is "Don't lose money," and the second rule is, "Never forget the first… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it. — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed… — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
“this book will teach you three powerful lessons: how you can minimize the odds of suffering irreversible losses; how you can maximize the chances… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money,… — Seth Klarman 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… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
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
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
