American - Businessman | 1966 -
Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch.
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There is no sure-fire way to get rich quickly. In fact, the pursuit of that usually leads to ruin.
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The best way I know to get rich long-term is to invest prudently and conservatively and not try and get rich quick but try and get rich slowly, basically.
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The exact details of how you practice value investing will vary investor to investor, but the fundamental principle of scouring the world, looking for dollar bills that you can buy for 50 cents or at some big discount - that is universal to value investing.
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I'd say the general outline of a sound investment approach is, first of all, you have to decide are you going to try to be an investor yourself? The answer for most people is probably they shouldn't try. You should put your money in index funds and not try to be a stock picker.
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Netflix is a better company with more upside than we had given it credit for than when we shorted it.
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I have never believed that large-cap stocks are too well followed to be anything but efficiently priced.
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Small-company stocks, like any asset class, can get picked over from time to time, but there are fundamental reasons why diligently mining them with an eye for unrecognised value can get market-beating returns.
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The potential rewards of small-cap investing do not come without risk.
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The relative illiquidity of small-company shares - which often contributes to their being undervalued - also increases their volatility.
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I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.
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Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What CEO wants to return excess cash to shareholders when it could be used to expand his or her empire?
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