David Tepper Quotes

100 David Tepper Quotes

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[On bad trades] I’ve made a lot of bad ones.
David Tepper

The worst trade we’ve made was probably in 1998. It was Russia and we thought Russia could devalue but they wouldn’t default. But they did both. So we kind of miscalculated that. We were too long and I couldn’t get out of that trade. We were down 20 something percent.
David Tepper

We moving slow, but we’re still moving.
David Tepper

Maybe people don’t even realise that the environment has changed. Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes it takes weeks or months.
David Tepper

I got to have the right things, because if I don’t I going to get killed.
David Tepper

[In January 2011] Gold is tough right now.
David Tepper

[On his house where he lived as a child in Pittsburgh] I grew up in the Stanton Heights section of Pittsburgh… My street was built on a coal-mine and it collapsed. My street where I grew up collapsed when I was a kid. But there’s gas everywhere.
David Tepper

[On gold and silver in January 2011] Those type of financial asset type metals, they reflect in some respect inflation but they also reflect a lot interest rates.
David Tepper

[On the US economy in January 2011] So much uncertainty has been alleviated… You have momentum going on in the country. This country looks good.
David Tepper

[On buying Dean Foods in January 2011] I like milk. It just looks like a cheap company to us…
David Tepper



[On the Federal reserve in January 2011 what he would eventually like to see] What you would like to see is a smooth progression of interest rates going up, just when they should go up.
David Tepper

[In January 2011] It’s very hard for inflation to take hold in the next year or two… It doesn’t mean [it won’t] three years down the line…
David Tepper

[In January 2011] I think this fed has been pretty good and people don’t give it enough credit…
David Tepper

[On the different administration] They’re talking the talk. We’ll have to see if they’ll walk the walk.
David Tepper

[In January 2011 on cutting the budget and the deficit] It’s going to make Obama hard to beat in two years.
David Tepper

[In January 2011] You can’t be too negative but you can’t be uncautious. You have to be a little cautious. So I’m not tepid, I’m Tepper.
David Tepper

[In January 2011] I am cautious, but I’m optimistic.
David Tepper

[On a comment that he could fund ‘The Food Bank’ for the next 10,000 years] You need leadership and it’s better to get more people involved… Not one person can do it. You need networks of people… You need that local leadership.
David Tepper

We’re pretty unemotional when we invest.
David Tepper

Markets adapt. People adapt. Don’t listen to all the crap out there.
David Tepper



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