Mario Gabelli Quotes

102 Mario Gabelli Quotes

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[In March 2012 on tech stock valuations potentially such as Facebook and LinkedIn IPOs] I was there in 1999 and sometimes the momentum continues…
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We tend to buy companies that sell products that benefit from demographic aging.
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What we know about John [Malone] is that he is a wealth builder… He is very tax sensitive…
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[March 2012] You can’t keep kicking the can down the road. The US deficit is a major issue with regards to our position in the global economy.
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There’s always what I call not a wall of worry, but a world of worry…
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The Frankenstein’s are coming back to bite.
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I don’t drink bourbon…
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[In October 2010 on mergers and acquisitions] Corporate lovemaking deals are back.
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What is a company worth today, what is a company going to be worth in two or three years…
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[In October 2010] This is the fifth wave of [corporate] takeovers, you had the first in the 60s, you had the 80s, 90s and then the private equity guys five years ago. Today it’s corporate buyers globally…
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[In October 2010 on US unemployment rates] We are concerned that the United States is 25 percent of the global economy and 17 percent of the world is the United States consumer… We need to create jobs.
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I’m a very lucky person because I get paid a lot of money to do what I do… It really is the kind of passion and the pressure that I happen to like…
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Every day I start work at 5:00am in the morning. And so I have a moral obligation to the clients who have entrusted their money to me...
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The Bronx still is a terrific place…
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[On whether he was concerned about succession in Berkshire Hathaway in May 2012] No.
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Markets fluctuate…
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We don’t have to swing at everything…
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Booze on a global basis. People drink. The good news about the Chinese and the Indians is that they consume a lot.
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[On booze companies] You drink it anywhere in the world and we follow it… If you’re a drinker we’re going to follow you…
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[In May 2012] We live on a global basis and for the next 30, 40, 50 years, the best place to preserve capital is to own cash producing assets that are inflation indexed
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[In May 2012] We don’t own bonds… We haven’t owned them for the last ten years…
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We like to buy companies that are ignored and unloved…
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