Guy Spier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
-- Guy Spier

#Investing #Crowds #Misperception
From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
-- Guy Spier

#Kings #People #Personality
But I think itâ€™s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkableâ€”to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environmentâ€”to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.
-- Guy Spier

#Thinking #People #Important
Iâ€™m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.
-- Guy Spier

#Trying #Portfolios #Manage
We canâ€™t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
-- Guy Spier

#Understanding #Trying #World
I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.
-- Guy Spier

#Trying #Portfolios #Manage
We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
-- Guy Spier

#Understanding #Trying #World
But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable—to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment—to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.
-- Guy Spier

#Thinking #People #Important

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think it's very likely that China will continue to explode economically and certainly become a superpower.
...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.
You don't have to go with the crowd.
I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd.
Hereâ€™s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.

Guy Spier famous quotes

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