David Dreman Quotes

#1. Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

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#2. Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

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#3. History constantly reminds us that in an uncertain world there is no visibility of prospects. Future earnings cannot be predicted with accuracy.

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#4. If you have good stocks and you really know them, you'll make money if you're patient over three years or more.

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#5. We invest in undervalued companies that exhibit strong fundamentals, above-market dividend yields and historic earnings growth, which our analysis indicates will persist. Our strategy is to own strong, fundamentally sound companies and to avoid speculative stocks or potential bankruptcies.

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#6. Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

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#7. One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices. I always look at trailing earnings when I judge stocks.

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#8. Analysts have always been overly optimistic.

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#9. Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

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#10. Bank One has got one of the best credit card divisions, ... The perception of investors is that financial services stocks are affected by interest rates and they're not.

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#11. Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

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#12. A good starting point [in the measurement of investment risk] is the preservation and enhancement of your purchasing power in real terms.

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#13. Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

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