Market Legends

Words of Wisdom

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Valuation Discipline

Benjamin Graham

The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid.

Value Investing

Seth A. Klarman

Value investing lies at the intersection of economics and psychology.

Emotional Discipline

Walter Schloss

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

Valuation discipline

Aswath Damodaran

A good valuation is a bridge between story and numbers.

Uncertainty and risk management

Peter L. Bernstein

The fundamental law of investing is the uncertainty of the future.

Patience and compounding

Charlie Munger

The big money is not in the buying and selling, but in the waiting.

Trend following and market turning points

George Soros

Most of the time we are punished if we go against the trend. Only at an inflection point are we rewarded.

Market Cycles

Howard Marks

In the end, trees don't grow to the sky, and few things go to zero.

Costs and compounding

John C. Bogle

You get precisely what you don't pay for.

Risk management and position sizing

Richard Dennis

Trade small because that's when you are as bad as you are ever going to be. Learn from your mistakes.

Know What You Own

Peter Lynch

If you can't explain to a 10-year-old in two minutes or less why you own a stock, you shouldn't own it.

Market psychology and second-order thinking

John Maynard Keynes

We devote our intelligences to anticipating what average opinion expects the average opinion to be.

Risk Management

Paul Tudor Jones

Don't focus on making money; focus on protecting what you have.

Risk management and exit discipline

Bruce Kovner

I know where I'm getting out before I get in.

Risk, leverage, and market cycles

Warren Buffett

After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.

Liquidity and market cycles

Stanley Druckenmiller

over the intermediate term liquidity moves markets much, much more than earnings do.

Diversification and discipline

Ray Dalio

For that reason, I believe that for most investors managing their own portfolios, investing should be done with little or no market timing.

Trading Through Uncertainty

Louis Bacon

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.