Martin J. Whitman quotes
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“We ignore outlooks and forecasts... we're lousy at it and we admit it ... everyone else is lousy too, but most people won't admit it.”
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“If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.”
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“Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”
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“Based on my own personal experience – both as an investor in recent years and an expert witness in years past – rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.”
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“Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.”
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“In the financial world it tends to be misleading to state, "There is no free lunch." Rather the more meaningful comment is, "Somebody has to pay for lunch."”
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“We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.”
-- Martin J. Whitman
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical”
Source : "Amartya Sen: India's dirty fighter". Interview With Madeleine Bunting, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2013.
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“Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.”
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“There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.”
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