Bent Quote by Seth Klarman

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

— Carl Icahn

Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they…

— Seth Klarman

But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend…

— Andrew Tobias

To be a good investor, you have to think differently from others.

— Kirsten Green

Investors should start with a view of skepticism. They should become intellectual investors rather than emotional investors. They should be careful, and they should…

— Anonymous

My experience is that very few people have what it takes to be a successful investor, as I discussed in The Arrogance of Stock…

— Whitney Tilson

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This…

— George Soros

As an investor-entrepreneur, I’ve always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

— Peter Thiel

Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of…

— John Templeton

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

— Jessica Livingston

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of…

— Abhijit Banerjee

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.

— Seth Klarman