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John Mihaljevic quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!”
-- John Mihaljevic

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“It seems unwise to allocate a large portion of investable capital to any one deep value opportunity, even if the latter promises a large expected return.”
-- John Mihaljevic

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“When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us.”
-- John Mihaljevic

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“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
“Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.”
“Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.”
“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”
“Iâ€™ve been the same guy since day one. No matter how successful I am in life, Iâ€™m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like thatâ€™s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, itâ€™s over. You feel like you canâ€™t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.”
“Plus, in one of his e-mails, the guy said he didn't like pancakes. What kind of ***** doesn't like pancakes?”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2009). “The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.”
“Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic.”
“In trading/ investing it's not about how much you make, but how much you don't lose”
“Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.”

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