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Martin J. Whitman Quotes: 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.
         

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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Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness.



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.

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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Rarely do more than three or four variables really count. Everything else is noise.



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."

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."



We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.





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