Seth Klarman Margin Of Safety Quotes

#1. I hadn't been left on the doorstep of an orphanage or church. I wasn't abandoned in some frilly basket by a tearful mother. Even that was too romantic of a story for me. I was left in a trashcan. Meant to die, I figured.

R.K. Lilley

#2. Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry.

Leonard Koren

#3. For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal.

George Meyer

#4. Why do I want to be challenged or have challenges? That's why I don't go climb mountains.

Jeff Garlin

#5. You're the smartest one in the class, Aibileen," she say. "And the only way you're going to keep sharp is to read and write every day.

Kathryn Stockett

#6. The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Max Roach

#7. This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

James MacDonald

#8. Love at first sight. Needed glasses.

Susan Holcombe

#9. There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

Rachel Nichols

#10. Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

Anne Rice

#11. Religion is a byproduct of fear. For much of human history, it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? Arthur C. Clarke, author

George Washington

#12. A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

Seth Klarman