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While I take no pleasure in others' misfortunes, we've historically made most of our profits from other investors behaving in a panicked and irrational fashion and selling us certain stocks at prices far below their intrinsic value. More volatility equals cheaper stocks, which equals higher returns.
Whitney Tilson
Fashion
Value
Made
Other
Others
Panicked
Our
Pleasure
Intrinsic
More
Higher
Volatility
Prices
Take
Misfortunes
Cheaper
Investors
Most
Returns
Equals
Historically
Selling
Stocks
Behaving
Irrational
Which
While
Far
Us
Certain
Profits
Below
My advice to most people is don't short stocks. It's a very, very difficult business. And you can really get clobbered.
Whitney Tilson
You
Business
People
Advice
Difficult
Most
Very
Stocks
Get
Short
Really
Nirvana, to a value investor, is paying a cheap price for a company that is growing in value every year at a nice rate - this largely explains why today we own stocks like Berkshire Hathaway, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Costco and Anheuser-Busch.
Whitney Tilson
Today
Value
Year
Own
Nice
Every
Nirvana
Costco
Rate
Price
Cheap
Investor
Like
Wal-Mart
Stocks
Microsoft
McDonald
Explains
Paying
Company
Growing
Largely
Why
It's human nature: for most investors, the pain of stocks going down is more tangible than the joy of when they go up. The common impulse is to do something - anything - to minimise the pain.
Whitney Tilson
Nature
Joy
Pain
Human Nature
Down
Something
More
Investors
Most
Tangible
Go
Up
Than
Stocks
Going
Human
Impulse
Common
Anything
While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not work out that way. Markets, technology, and businesses change too quickly to put portfolios on autopilot.
Whitney Tilson
Work
Love
Technology
Change
Too
Everyone
Way
Markets
Out
Would
Perfect
Put
Bought
Does
Quickly
Forever
Stocks
While
Work Out
Held
Businesses
Portfolio
When reviewing one's portfolio, it is important to be aware of common mental mistakes that may lead to bad decisions. The most powerful is commitment bias, which, as manifested in investing, is the tendency to fall in love with one's stocks.
Whitney Tilson
Love
Commitment
Important
Mistakes
Fall
Bad
Mental
Tendency
Lead
Investing
Powerful
Most
Bias
Most Powerful
Reviewing
Stocks
May
Common
Which
Manifested
Decisions
Aware
Portfolio
There are deep value opportunities in insurance stocks, which were beaten down because of their exposure to the subprime crisis, annuities, and commercial real estate.
Wilbur Ross
Opportunities
Real Estate
Value
Down
Crisis
Beaten
Because
Insurance
Real
Were
Commercial
Stocks
Estate
Which
Deep
Exposure
When I started making some paychecks, I didn't invest in stocks and bonds - I invested in American culture.
Marty Stuart
Culture
Some
Invest
Invested
Making
Stocks
American
American Culture
Started
Bonds
If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.
Bill Gates
Work
Good
You
Yourself
Will
Whatever
Engineering
Type
Interview
Way
See
Some
Exam
About
Employers
Educate
Stocks
Sample
Your
Found
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.
Bill Gates
Good
You
People
Writing
Some People
Luck
Software
Extremely
Kicking
Some
Through
Investing
Well
Ball
Lot
End
Up
Stocks
Skill
Pays
Assets
Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means.
Robert Kiyosaki
People
Value
Few
Intrinsic
Phrase
About
Parrot
Know
Talking
Stocks
Famous
While
Really
Means
Warren
Warren Buffett
Many
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
P. J. O'Rourke
History
Money
Lost
Period
Stocks
American
American History
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