Cundill Investment Quotes

#1. The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Lester B. Pearson

#2. You know shit just got serious when you refuse gooey caramel cupcakes which taste like heaven.

Belle Aurora

#3. They really can't afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can't afford to do research for five customers who won't generate a lot of commissions.

Peter Cundill

#4. To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#5. The world is perfect the way it is.

Werner Erhard

#6. The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

Annie Leibovitz

#7. But poverty, though it does not prevent the generation, is extremely unfavourable to the rearing of children. The tender plant is produced, but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies.

Adam Smith

#8. How straight you are for the world, and how you bend and cry for me. I want to go so deep in you we have the same thoughts.

C.D. Reiss

#9. I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

Rachel Kushner

#10. Never be led astray by those philosophic fools who preach up an impersonal God.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.

Peter Cundill

#12. Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.

Peter Cundill