Donald Yacktman Quotes
110 Donald Yacktman Quotes (Don Yacktman, Yacktman Asset Management, Stephen Yacktman)
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[In February 1993.] Too many people buy stories or trends - they don't buy businesses.
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[In June 1993.] We buy stocks that are like beach balls pushed under the water.
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[In October 1993.] We don’t think that businesses that have been consistently profitable for 25 or 30 years suddenly go from the penthouse to the outhouse.
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[In August 1995.] The more logical an investing strategy, the more likely it is to succeed.
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[In August 1995.] I look for good businesses run by people who are oriented toward shareholders and whose stock can be bought relatively cheaply.
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[In March 1998.] If you buy stocks at huge discounts to value, it doesn’t matter what the market does.
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[In January 2000.] History is replete with momentum investors who got killed on the downside.
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[In July 2002.] We are trying to buy better-than-average companies at below-average prices.
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[In 2004.] Why would you want to put money in your 50th-best investment?
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[In August 2004.] At the end of the day, the difference between being stubborn and being principled is being right.
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[In March 2011.] No.1 is protecting our client’s money. We make an investment with the intention of making money.
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[In March 2011.] Recessions are a result of inventory corrections. It is easy to correct toothpaste inventories. It is very difficult to correct housing-inventory problems…
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[In March 2011.] A value trap, to me, is a grubby business not bought cheaply enough.
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This passion for investing is like fire in the belly. Either you have it or you don’t.
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[In October 1986 at the age of 45 on value and growth style investing.] The problem was that the growth-oriented investors often forgot that there is a price beyond which they should not pay, and the value players, while they bought assets cheaply, often ended up with poor businesses and dull stocks.
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[In October 1986.] I get a nosebleed if the P/E is much higher than 10.
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[In October 1986.] The idea of living on the edge, of life in the fast lane, just doesn't appeal to me.
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[In May 1990.] I’m not buying chips in a casino.
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[In May 1990.] One: It has to be fundamentally a good business. Two: It must be run by shareholder-oriented management. Three: It has to have a relatively low purchase price.
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[In May 1990.] My horizon time is about 10 years. I refuse to call the market, inflation, interest rates, the economic situation. It’s best to concentrate on value.
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[In May 1990.] I’m prepared to wait for the market to value them at their correct price.
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[In August 1990.] If you can't find bargains in this environment, you aren't trying… I'm down to about one tenth of 1% in cash.
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[In August 1990.] I feel totally comfortable being 100% invested these days. People probably think I'm nuts.
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[In December 1991.] I’m not buying for today or tomorrow. This is a marathon.
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[In February 1993 on avoiding the siren’s song of a value trap.] Sometimes you have to be like Ulysses, strapped to the mast.
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[In October 1993 on recent price drops.] Given us a chance to invest our cash at prices I never thought we’d see. We now own a package of businesses that earns three times as much as the S&P 500 stocks do when you compare operating earnings to assets. But our stocks sell at 12 times estimated 1993 earnings versus 18 times for the S&P. That combination does well over time.
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[In October 1993 on companies like Philip Morris, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sara Lee.] Wall Street has the very myopic view that the profitability of these companies has been permanently destroyed. We don’t think that businesses that have been consistently profitable for 25 or 30 years suddenly go from the penthouse to the outhouse. We’re taking the very long view.
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[In October 1993]We’re not momentum guys.
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[In September 1994.] We're often viewed as contrarians. Value investors tend to be that way because we're buying against the consensus or the momentum.
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[In September 1994.] Stocks come down in price for one of three reasons. Either the market comes down and drags a lot of things with it; or there's a particular psychological cloud hanging over that business, like the threat of a lawsuit or adverse legislation, or the company has a problem that is short-term in nature but the market perceives it as eternal. The average large-company stock will fluctuate almost 50% from its 52-week low to high year after year.
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[In September 1994 on ‘Fruit of the Loom.’] Fruit of the Loom has a low-cost production position and a dominant marketshare, so you'd have to view that situation as more temporary than permanent. I just don't think people are going to stop wearing underwear and T-shirts.
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[In September 1994.] You can charge a premium price for a premium product. But there's a limit…
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[In October 1994.] I feel like Silky Sullivan, the horse that always came from 20 lengths back to win the race.
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[In October 1994.] We look at one stock at a time. A lot of people do the macro stuff. We don't.
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[In March 1995.] I want companies that aren’t capital-intensive, that earn high rates of return from their tangible assets and whose managers are good allocators of capital. And then, we wait for them to be battered and out of favor.
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[In August 1995 at the age of 53.] I don’t think somebody suddenly goes from being a genius to being an idiot.
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[In August 1995.] Buy big, growing, boring companies when they’re beaten down in price and sell them when prices approach peak valuations.
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[In August 1995.] There are generally two types of investors. You have growth-stock buyers and you have value buyers. I felt that growth-stock buyers tended to buy better businesses but paid too much for them. The value investors tended to buy poor-quality lousy businesses, but because they bought and sold at good prices they made money, too. My conclusion: Wasn’t there something in between? Something that would take into account owning good businesses but buying them as undervalued stocks?
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[In August 1995.] Staying with the most profitable businesses is the way to go.
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[In August 1995.] If you added up profits of the airline industry every year since Kitty Hawk, the result would be a negative number. It’s a lousy business. The same with hotels.
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