Occupation: Investor Birth: 1936
I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'.
Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong..
We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis in….
If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more..
History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy..
Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity..
Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do..
I buy stocks when they are battered. I am strict with my discipline. I always buy stocks with low price-earnings ratios, low price-to-book value rati….
Demanding immediate success invariably leads to playing the fads or fashions currently performing well rather than investing on a solid basis. A cour….
Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest ra….
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially..
A realistic definition of risk recognizes the potential loss of capital through inflation and taxes, and would include at least the following two fac….
Analysts have always been overly optimistic..
A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms..
Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the w….
Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood..
One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always loo….