Top 6 Martin J. Whitman Quotes

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

Martin J. Whitman

#2. 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."

Martin J. Whitman

#3. If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

Martin J. Whitman

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

Martin J. Whitman

#5. 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.

Martin J. Whitman

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

Martin J. Whitman

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