Seth Klarman Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.

  Seth Klarman

  Intelligent, Investing, Calculators

• Value investing is risk aversion.

  Seth Klarman

  Risk, Insightful, Investing

• Value investing is predicated on the efficient market hypothesis being wrong.

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  Investing, Hypothesis, Efficient

• Value in relation to price, not price alone, must determine your investment decisions. If you look to Mr Market as a creator of investment opportunities (where price departs from underlying value), you have the makings of a value investor. If you insist on looking to Mr Market for investment guidance however, you are probably best advised to hire someone else to manage your money.

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  Opportunity, Decision, Looks

• Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.

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  Gambling, Strategy, Investment

• In a rising market, everyone makes money and a value philosophy is unnecessary. But because there is no certain way to predict what the market will do, one must follow a value philosophy at all times.

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  Philosophy, Rising, Way

• Value investors will not invest in businesses that they cannot readily understand or ones they find excessively risky. Hence few value investors will own the shares of technology companies. Many also shun commercial banks, which they consider to have unanalyzable assets, as well as property and casualty insurance companies, which have both unanalyzable assets and liabilities.

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  Technology, Commercial Banks, Share

• One must understand the importance of an endless drive to get information and seek value.

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  Information, Endless, Importance

• I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline

  Seth Klarman

  Discipline, Challenges, Investing

• While knowing how to value businesses is essential for investment success, the first and perhaps most important step in the investment process is knowing where to look for opportunities

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  Opportunity, Investment Success, Knowing

• As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

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  Investing, Buffett, Adopted

• There's no such thing as a value company. Price is all that matters. At some price, an asset is a buy, at another it's a hold, and at another it's a sell.

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  Matter, Assets, Company

  "Jason Zweig Interviews Seth Klarman At CFA Institute Annual Conference". Interview with Jason Zweig, www.gurufocus.com. July 15, 2010.

• When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.

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  Opposites, Long, Redemption

• While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

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  Intelligent, Discipline, Risk

• When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.

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  Rocks, Investment, Selling

• Value investors have to be patient and disciplined, but what I really think is you need not to be greedy. If you're greedy and you leverage, you blow up. Almost every financial blow up is because of leverage.

  Seth Klarman

  Blow, Thinking, Needs

• Investors should pay attention not only to whether but also to why current holdings are undervalued. It is critical to know why you have made an investment and to sell when the reason for owning it no longer applies. Look for investments with catalysts that may assist directly in the realization of underlying value. Give reference to companies having good managements with a personal financial stake in the business. Finally, diversify your holdings and hedge when it is financially attractive to do so.

  Seth Klarman

  Giving, Good Man, Attention

• It's awful to have a depression, but it's a great thing to have a depression mentality because it means that we are not speculating, we are not living beyond our means, we don't quit our job to take a big risk because we know we might not get another job. There is something stable about a country, a society built on those values.

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  Country, Jobs, Mean

• Warren Buffett is right when he says you should invest as if the market is going to be closed for the next five years. The fundamental principles of value investing, if they make sense to you, can allow you to survive and prosper when everyone else is rudderless. We have a proven map with which to navigate. It sounds kind of crazy, but in times of turmoil in the market. I’ve felt a sort of serenity in knowing that if I’ve checked and rechecked my work, one plus one still equals two regardless of where a stock trades right after I buy it.

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  Crazy, Years, Two

• A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.

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  Use, Littles, Pay

• Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

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  Assessment, Validation, Alternatives

• To value investors the concept of indexing is at best silly and at worst quite hazardous. Warren Buffett has observed that "in any sort of a contest - financial, mental or physical - it's an enormous advantage to have opponents who have been taught that it's useless to even try." I believe that over time value investors will outperform the market and that choosing to match it is both lazy and shortsighted.

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  Believe, Silly, Lazy

• Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

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  Exit, Should, Realms

• While some might mistakenly consider value investing a mechanical tool for identifying bargains, it is actually a comprehensive investment philosophy that emphasizes the need to perform in-depth fundamental analysis, pursue long-term investment results, limit risk, and resist crowd psychology.

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  Philosophy, Intelligent, Long

• Gold is unique because it has the age-old aspect of being viewed as a store of value. Nevertheless, it’s still a commodity and has no tangible value, and so I would say that gold is a speculation. But because of my fear about the potential debasing of paper money and about paper money not being a store of value, I want some exposure to gold.

  Seth Klarman

  Unique, Age, Gold

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