Einhorn Quotes

#1. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

Saul Bellow

#2. I've got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

David Einhorn

#3. For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.

Paulo Freire

#4. A 99% Value-at-Risk calculation does not evaluate what happens in the last one percent ... This is like an airbag that works all the time, except when you have a car accident.

David Einhorn

#5. A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.

Nicholas Kristof

#6. Both poker and investing are games of incomplete information. You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

David Einhorn

#7. I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.

Edward Einhorn

#8. When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.

David Einhorn

#9. One of the rules of plays, I feel, is to never use an extra word if you don't have to.

Edward Einhorn

#10. You're really friendly. This isn't really a job for friendly people.

Noah Cicero

#11. In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

David Einhorn

#12. As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.

David Einhorn

#13. I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

David Einhorn

#14. Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.

Horace

#15. There was never anything between us and there never will be. Don't waste any more time worrying about feelings that neither of us ever had. - Jake

Jeff Hirsch

#16. On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughness/skepticism.

David Einhorn

#17. I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.

Edward Einhorn

#18. When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.

David Einhorn

#19. My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Michael Jordan

#20. My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered.

David Einhorn

#21. To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.

Walter Kirn

#22. What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

David Einhorn

#23. Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.

David Einhorn

#24. The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

David Einhorn

#25. Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.

David Einhorn

#26. Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#27. What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

David Einhorn

#28. A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.

Edward Einhorn

#29. During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

David Einhorn

#30. There's more at risk in what happens in Microsoft than I could ever bet on a poker table.

David Einhorn