"How do value investors deal with the analytical necessity to predict the unpredictable? The only answer is conservatism. Since all projections are subject to error, optimistic ones tend to place investors on a precarious limb. Virtually everything must go right, or losses may be sustained. Conservat"
"Security prices move up and down for two basic reasons: to reflect business reality (or investor perceptions of that reality) or to reflect short-term variations in supply and demand."
"The business of money management can be highly lucrative. It requires very little capital investment, while offering high compensation and the rapid development of what is effectively an annuity. Once an investment management business becomes highly profitable, it is likely to remain that way so lon"
理清投資和投機的區別 一般人的對股價的判斷或者看買不買的決定時 考慮的還是 current price of securities 加上 perceived values of securities的綜合考量;再者 從長期角度股價總是反映公司基本面情況 再下去說全是:一時高低絕不影響一隻優股的真正價值;若有人信奉value investing在八零年代末期入日本股 對漲跌無所用心 堅信inner value會重歸高點——那意味著從一入手buy and hold堅持到獲利(如果有那一天的話。。。)可能小半輩子就過去了