Appraisal Quote by Seth Klarman

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at…

— Charlie Munger

India's dynamic growth, coupled with its large reservoir of skilled workforce, its commitment to democracy, and the rule of law, all taken together make…

— Preneet Kaur

The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing…

— Peter Cundill

“If it is a real movement, in a short space of time the natural, normal reaction will have been recovered, and the stock will…

— Anonymous

In my business investing, you are buying a stock, and someone else is selling the stock. Right there, that's like a debate. Is the…

— David Einhorn

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

— Norman Ralph Augustine

I made a conscious decision when I was writing that book to depict in real time how I treated it, and how I thought…

— Melissa Febos

Self-appraisals of efficacy are reasonably accurate, but they diverge from action because people do not know fully what they will have to do, lack…

— Albert Bandura

When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I…

— Arthur Nersesian

Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved…

— W. Edwards Deming

I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.

— Lynn Barber

Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have…

— Albert Bandura