Martin J. Whitman famous 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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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
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Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical
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Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
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The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.
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I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.
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There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.
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It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.
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