Month: August 2021

  • Estimating Pain

    If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

    – Marcus Aurelius

  • Stories and Numbers

    Every investment is valued by taking a number from today and multiplying it by a story about tomorrow. Sometimes an asset is mostly numbers, sometimes it’s all story.

    – Morgan Housel

  • Assets, Earnings Power and Growth

    A further advantage of the value investor’s approach-first the assets, then the current earnings power, and finally and rarely the value of the potential growth-is that it gives the most authority to the elements of valuation that are most credible.

    Value Investing: From Graham To Buffett And Beyond