Seth Klarman Quotes - Page 7

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• Short sellers age in dog years.

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  Dog, Years, Age

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• Be indifferent if you lose your short term clients, remember they are your own worst enemy

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  Worst Enemy, Clients, Remember

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• The government - the ultimate short-term-oriented player - cannot withstand much pain in the economy or the financial markets. Bailouts and rescues are likely to occur, though not with sufficient predictability for investors to comfortably take advantage. The government will take enormous risks in such interventions, especially if the expenses can be conveniently deferred to the future. Some of the price-tag is in the form of back- stops and guarantees, whose cost is almost impossible to determine.

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  Pain, Player, Government

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• The government can always rescue the markets or interfere with contract law whenever it deems convenient with little or no apparent cost. (Investors believe this now and, worse still, the government believes it as well. We are probably doomed to a lasting legacy of government tampering with financial markets and the economy, which is likely to create the mother of all moral hazards. The government is blissfully unaware of the wisdom of Friedrich Hayek: "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.")

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  Mother, Believe, Men

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• Analysts recommendations may not produce good results. In part this is due to the pressure placed on these analysts to recommend frequently rather than wisely.

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  May, Pressure, Analysts

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• Nowhere does it say that investors should strive to make every last dollar of potential profit; consideration of risk must never take a backseat to return. Conservative positioning entering a crisis is crucial: it enables one to maintain long-term oriented, clear thinking, and to focus on new opportunities while others are distracted or even forced to sell. Portfolio hedges must be in place before a crisis hits. One cannot reliably or affordably increase or replace hedges that are rolling off during a financial crisis.

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  Thinking, Opportunity, Long

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008". Seth Klarman's annual letter, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

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  Risk, Investing, World

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• Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.

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  Maturity, Debt, Catalyst

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• I don't have a Bloomberg on my desk. I don't care.

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  Care, I Don't Care, Desks

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• There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

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  Past, News, Amount

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008" by Christopher Pavese, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• By investing at a discount, Benjamin Graham knew that he was unlikely to experience losses.

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  Loss, Investing, Unlikely

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• When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

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  Government, Attention, Pay

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• Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.

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  Intelligent, Investing, Revulsion

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

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  Gambling, Strategy, Investment

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• You need humility to say 'I might be wrong.'

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  Humility, Needs, Might

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• At equal returns, public investments are generally superior to private investments not only because they are more liquid but also because amidst distress, public markets are more likely than private ones to offer attractive opportunities to average down.

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  Opportunity, Average, Return

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• Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

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  Safety, Perfect, Decision

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• It turns out that value investing is something that is in your blood. There are people who just don't have the patience and discipline to do it, and there are people who do. So it leads me to think it's genetic.

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  Thinking, Blood, Discipline

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• You probably would not choose to dine at a restaurant whose chef always ate elsewhere. I do eat my own cooking, and I don't "dine out" when it comes to investing.

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  Cooking, Investing, Chef

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• We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.

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  Believe, Views, Common Sense

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• Avoid organizing investment team into silos.

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  Team, Investment

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• Having great clients is the key to investment success.

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  Keys, Investment Success, Clients

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• Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

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  People, Machines, Excess

  "The 20 Forgotten Lessons Of 2008" by Christopher Pavese, www.businessinsider.com. April 28, 2010.

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• When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.

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  Real, Judgement, Redemption

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• Great investments don't just knock on the door and say "buy me".

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  Doors, Investment

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