Value Investors Quotes

#1. Investors have no reason to feel bearish. True value investors are glad the markets are down.

Irving Kahn

#2. For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.

Alex Berenson

#3. Value investing requires a great deal of hard work, unusually strict discipline, and a long-term investment horizon. Few are willing and able to devote sufficient time and effort to become value investors, and only a fraction of those have the proper mind-set to succeed.

Seth Klarman

#4. In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.

Seth Klarman

#5. Value investors should completely exit a security by the time it reaches full value; owning overvalued securities is the realm of speculators.

Seth Klarman

#6. Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it's a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company's value - don't decrease faster than they anticipate.

Peter Thiel

#7. Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#8. I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

Seth Klarman

#9. I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.

Bill Ackman

#10. What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.

Carol J. Adams

#11. Bond investors are the vampires of the investment world. They love decay, recession - anything that leads to low inflation and the protection of the real value of their loans.

Bill Gross

#12. It's nice to do an IPO where your investors get value straightaway and the share price pops up; it proves you left something on the table for them.

Ivan Glasenberg

#13. Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.

Warren Buffett

#14. The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

Michael Burry

#15. I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.

Maria Bartiromo

#16. Armed with an awareness of how investors value intangibles,

Brian E. Becker

#17. You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.

Beck

#18. The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

Peter Cundill

#19. I'd rather trust the versions of ourselves we don't remember than trust people who don't know us at all.

Colleen Hoover

#20. Real investors should never feel bearish because the time to buy value is when markets go down!

Irving Kahn

#21. I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.

Julie Delpy

#22. Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Eric Ries

#23. An investor calculates what a stock is worth, based on the value of its businesses.

Benjamin Graham

#24. This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.

Dorothy Parker

#25. It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

John Neff

#26. investors. I have been a student of the philosophy of value investing, which of course was established, executed, and popularized by superinvestors Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet, and Seth Klarman among

Sundeep Bajikar

#27. I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

Bill Gross