Joel Greenblatt Quotes

101 Joel Greenblatt Quotes

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The odds of anyone calling you on the phone with good investment advice are about the same as winning Lotto without buying a ticket.
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You want to be well paid because you did your homework.
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You don’t want to be well paid merely for taking big risks. Anyone can manage that.
Joel Greenblatt

The truth is you can’t really tell much of anything just from measuring a stock’s past price movements.
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Stock market profits can be hiding anywhere, and their hiding places are always changing.
Joel Greenblatt

Reading and studying Graham’s work is how I first became fascinated with the stock market. I still apply his teachings wherever and whenever I can.
Joel Greenblatt

[On value-oriented strategies] Though these strategies have been well documented over many years, most individual and professional investors do not have the patience to use them.
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Both spinoffs and merger securities are distributed to investors who were originally investing in something entirely different. Both spinoffs and merger securities are generally unwanted by those investors who receive them. Both spinoffs and merger securities are usually sold without regard to the investment merits. As a result, both spinoffs and merger securities can make you a lot of money.
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Both spinoffs and merger securities are generally unwanted by those investors who receive them.
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Bargains are often created by anxious sellers who never wanted the stuff in the first place.
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Remember it’s the quality of your ideas not the quantity that will result in the big money.
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The important thing is to stick to the few situations that you have time to research and understand.
Joel Greenblatt

To be a successful investor over the long-term, you must also pretty much enjoy the journey.
Joel Greenblatt

[On money] If viewed in the proper light, it can buy you time – the freedom to pursue the things that you enjoy and that give meaning to your life.
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While it’s nice and often helpful to have a rising market, it’s not required.
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New bargains are constantly being created.
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It’s just that more than 95% of the trading back and forth each day is probably unnecessary.
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Companies that are too small for professionals to buy and that are not large enough to generate sufficient commission revenue to justify analyst coverage are more likely to be ignored or misunderstood.
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Most people don’t (and shouldn’t) invest by buying stocks and holding them for only one month. Besides the huge amount of time, transaction costs, and tax expenses involved, this is essentially a trading strategy, not really a practical long-term investment strategy.
Joel Greenblatt

Buying stocks and holding them for only one month…is essentially a trading strategy, not really a practical long-term investment strategy.
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Many studies over the years have confirmed that value-oriented strategies beat the market over longer time horizons.
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As much as possible you don’t want to be well paid merely for taking big risks. Anyone can manage that. You want to be well paid because you did your homework.
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The record of research analysts at major brokerage firms for predicting future earnings or stock prices is quite poor… Even institutional clients of reputable investment firms don’t get particularly good advice.
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The strategy of putting all your eggs into one basket and watching that basket is less risky than you might think.
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A stock that has fallen from 30 to 10 is considered riskier than a stock that has fallen from 12 to 10 in the same period. It might be. But it could be that most of the stock’s downside risk has been eliminated by the huge price drop. The truth is you can’t really tell much of anything just from measuring a stock’s past price movements.
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There’s more than one road to investment heaven.
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The secret hiding places of stock-market profits – The answer is: stock market profits can be hiding anywhere, and their hiding places are always changing. In fact, the underlying theme to most of these investment situations is change.
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Even finding one good opportunity a month is far more than you should need or want.
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Teach a man to fish…
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Research will take some work. The good news is that you will be well paid.
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Risk arbitrage – No. Merger securities – Yes.
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The important thing to remember is that purchasing the common stock of bankrupt companies is rarely a profitable investment strategy.
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Trade the bad ones, invest in the good ones. This means when you make a bargain purchase, determined what kind of company you’re buying.
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In fact, if it’s used to help others, money can be a very positive force.
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While to many ‘time is money’, it’s probably more universal to say that ‘money is time’. After all, time is the currency of everyone’s life. One of the great benefits of having money is the ability to pursue those great accomplishments that require the gifts of being and time.
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While it’s nice and often helpful to have a rising market, it’s not required. Because your bargain opportunities are created by special corporate events – events that take place in all market environments – new bargains are constantly being created. In most cases though, these bargains are only temporary. It might not be today or tomorrow, but if you do your homework well, the stock market will eventually recognise the inherent value that attracted you to the bargain opportunity in the first place. That’s why, in the end, a disciplined approach to seeking out bargain stocks will pay off.
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A strategy of buying stocks at low prices relative to their book values has been shown to consistently beat the market.
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If I can buy a business for a lot less than I think it’s worth, I buy it.
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If you just stick to buying good companies (ones that have a high return on capital) and to buying those companies only at bargain prices (at prices that give you a high earnings yield), you can end up systematically buying many of the good companies that crazy Mr Market has decided to literally give away.
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Paying a bargain price when you purchase a share in a business is a good thing.
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