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Seth Klarman

Founder of the Baupost Group and author of Margin of Safety, a scarce and much-cited text on risk-averse value investing.

Investor · Baupost Group4 lines
Investors must remember that their first objective should be to avoid loss.
Seth Klarman · widely attributed
In investing it is never wrong to change your mind. It is only wrong to change your mind and do nothing about it.
Seth Klarman · widely attributed
Value investing is at its core the marriage of a contrarian streak and a calculator.
Seth Klarman · Margin of Safety, 1991
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
Seth Klarman · Margin of Safety, 1991
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