Top 32 Guy Spier Quotes
#1. Famed value investor Guy Spier has managed to write what is both a gripping memoir and a fascinating study of what it takes to succeed in investing and life. A must read!
John Mihaljevic
#2. This became my own goal: not to be Warren Buffett, but to become a more authentic version of myself. As he had taught me, the path to true success is through authenticity.
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#3. The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
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#4. Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
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#5. I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi
#6. For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.
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#7. Over the time that I followed Warren Buffett, one CFO told me, it's very important to pay attention not only to what Warren Buffett says and what he actually does - often there are subtle differences between the two.
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#8. The great extension of our experience in recent years has brought light to the insufficiency of our simple mechanical conceptions and, as a consequence, has shaken the foundation on which the customary interpretation of observation was based.
Niels Bohr
#9. Books are a priceless source of wisdom. But people are the ultimate teachers, and there may be lessons that we can only learn from observing them or being in their presence.
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#11. I'm trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.
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#12. From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
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#13. I don't think that anyone can really understand anything until it's understood on a cellular, emotional level.
Rebecca Hall
#14. People will always stop you doing the right thing if it's unconventional.
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#15. One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.
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#16. The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.
E. M. Forster
#17. Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn't want to discover what behavior he's capable of.
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#18. Will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.
Jim Ramstad
#19. As I've come to discover, investing is about much more than money. So as your wealth grows, I hope you will also come to realize that the money is largely irrelevant. And what you will want to do with the bulk of your wealth is give it back to society.
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#20. Admit it, Ella. It's not so bad being a carnivore."
I reached for a chunk of bread and dabbed it in soft yellow butter. "I'm not a carnivore, I'm an opportunistic omnivore.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.
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#23. I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.
Wes Studi
#24. our environment is much stronger than our intellect. Remarkably few investors - either amateur or professional - truly understand this critical point.
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#25. We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
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#26. The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.
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#27. I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist ... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.
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#28. so often, we focus our analytical efforts in the wrong direction and miss something vital. So it's crucial to be open to the possibility that we might be mistaken. During
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#29. Buffett and Munger joke that envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that isn't any fun. "Envy is crazy," remarks Munger. "It's 100 percent destructive. . . . If you get those things out of your life early, life works a lot better.
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#30. The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win.
Clint Smith
#31. when your consciousness or mental attitude shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate business tool and life tool.
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#32. And I'm so obsessed with my pursuit of the perfect cappuccino that I spent $6,000 on an exquisite La Marzocco coffee machine, which I imported from Florence.
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