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Howard Marks Quote
From his March 2002 Memo “Learning from Enron”:
“Security analysis and knowledgeable investing aren't easy. Investors must be alert for fuzzy or incomplete information, and for companies that don't put their interests first. They must invest only when they know what they don't know, and they must insist on sufficient margin for error owing to any shortcomings.”
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Howard Marks On Bloomberg
Link to video: Howard Marks on Risk Assessment, Market Strategy Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Marks, chairman of Oaktree Capital Group LLC, talks about assessing market risk, volatility and sentiment. Marks speaks with Stephanie Ruhle and Erik Schatzker...
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Howard Marks' Crystal Ball Proved Accurate
Link to article: Howard Marks' Crystal Ball Proved Accurate Ten years ago, veteran investor and writer Howard Marks sent a contrarian -- and prescient -- memo to clients of his firm, Oaktree Capital Management, assessing the state of the hedge...
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Seth Klarman Quote
From Seth Klarman, via Margin of Safety:Because investing is as much an art as a science, investors need a margin of safety. A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human...
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Seth Klarman Quote
From Margin of Safety(Source):Some investors insist on trying to obtain perfect knowledge about their impending investments, researching companies until they think they know everything there is to know about them. They study the industry and the competition,...
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Humility In Investing
From Howard Marks’ May 2002 Memo: "I think humility is essential, especially concerning the ability to know the future. Before acting on a forecast, we must ask whether there's good reason to think we're more right than the consensus view already...
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