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. Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.

Guy Spier

#3. 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.

Guy Spier

#4. One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.

Guy Spier

#5. The way I feel about him is like a heartbeat -- soft and persistent, underlying everything.

Becky Albertalli

#6. I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Being secure in you masculinity isn't the same as being straight.

Becky Albertalli

#7. Certainly, it could be otherwise. Religion and race could completely recede as decisive factors in the life of a people and of nations in favor of humanity, which alone determines the value and essence of the person.

Agnes Grunwald-Spier

#8. People will always stop you doing the right thing if it's unconventional.

Guy Spier

#9. 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.

Guy Spier

#10. I'm trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

Guy Spier

#11. 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.

Guy Spier

#12. 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.

Guy Spier

#13. Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.

Becky Albertalli

#14. 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.

Guy Spier

#15. For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

Guy Spier

#16. He simply said, 'Atoms... they're everywhere'.

Ethan Spier

#17. It's stillness and pressure and rhythm and breathing.

Becky Albertalli

#18. The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

Guy Spier

#19. And this gay thing. It feels so big. It's almost insurmountable. I don't know how to tell them something like this and still come out of it feeling like Simon. Because if Leah and Nick don't recognize me, I don't even recognize myself anymore.

Becky Albertalli

#20. 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.

Guy Spier

#21. When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

Guy Spier

#22. our environment is much stronger than our intellect. Remarkably few investors - either amateur or professional - truly understand this critical point.

Guy Spier

#23. I don't even know. I'm just so sick of straight people who can't get their shit together.

Becky Albertalli

#24. 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.

Guy Spier

#25. 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.

Guy Spier

#26. But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.

Becky Albertalli

#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.

Guy Spier

#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

Guy Spier

#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.

Guy Spier

#30. when your consciousness or mental attitude shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate business tool and life tool.

Guy Spier

#31. 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.

Guy Spier