Mohnish Pabrai Quotes
102 Mohnish Pabrai Quotes (Pabrai Funds)
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Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success.
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It's easier to learn the lessons when you don't take the hits in your own portfolio. But when you take the hits in your own portfolio, those lessons stay with you for a long time.
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Life is a journey and the journey is the destination.
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Heads I win; tails, I don’t lose much.
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If there wasn’t a Warren Buffett, there wouldn’t be a Pabrai Funds… It is hard for me to overstate the influence Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger have had on my thinking… I can never repay my debt to them for selflessly sharing priceless wisdom over the decades.
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Minimizing downside risk while maximizing the upside is a powerful concept.
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Take advantage of Wall Street’s handicap by seeking out low-risk, high-uncertainty bets.
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Rapidly changing industries are the enemy of the investor.
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Margin of Safety – Always!
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Fear and greed are very much fundamental to the human psyche.
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Buffett’s rule number one and rule number two are worth keeping front and center at all times. [Rule number 1: Don’t lose money. Rule number 2: don’t forget rule number one.]
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I have never made a phone call to any management of any of the companies I am an investor in. The way I see it, if they need my help, there is a problem.
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Investors always overshoot and undershoot.
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There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.
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You make money by waiting.
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The biggest, the single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It’s patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch and waiting many years for the right pitch.
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I would say, the crossover between entrepreneurship in investing and value investing especially is protect your downside.
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I think the thing is that every business ought to figure out who their ideal customer is.
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What is business if not an endeavor to create wealth?
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We have all been taught that earning high rates of return requires taking on greater risks… If an investor can make virtually risk-free bets with outsized rewards, and keep making the bets over and over, the results are stunning.
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If you went to a horse race track and you were offered 90 percent odds of a 20 times return and a 10 percent chance of losing your money, would you take that bet? Heck Yes! You’d make that bet all day long, and it would make sense to bet a very large portion of your net worth with those spectacular odds. This is not a risk-free bet, but it is a very low-risk, high-return bet. Heads, I win; tails, I don’t lose much!
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[On a successful motel investing strategy.] The formula is simple: fixate on keeping costs as low as possible, charge lower rates than all competitors, drive up the occupancy, and maximize the free cash flow.
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[On Pabrai Funds and potential investors.] I don’t need to do too much due diligence on my investors because I’m getting their money and not vice-versa.
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His story is all about ‘Few Bets, Big Bets, Infrequent Bets.’ And it’s all about only participating in coin tosses where ‘Heads, I win; tails, I don’t lose much!’
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My take on Virgin Atlantic is simply this: if you can start a business that requires a $200 million 747 jumbo jet and a boatload of employees in a tightly regulated industry for virtually no capital, then virtually any business that you want to start can be gotten off the ground with minimal capital. All you need to do is replace capital with creative thinking and solutions.
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We begin by eliminating all businesses that are either not simple businesses or fall squarely outside our circle of competence.
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Capitalism is greed driven… Capitalists strive hard to capitalize on any opportunity to make outsize profits. The irony is that, in that pursuit, they usually destroy all outsized profits.
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The Buffett Partnership has never had a down year, in spite of placing large Kelly-type bets. As far as I know, neither has [Joel] Greenblatt or [Edward] Lampert.
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Anytime we are trying to compute odds for the way the future of a given business is likely to unfold, it is, at best, an approximation. We try to adjust for this by ascribing conservative odds.
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Investing is just like gambling. It’s all about odds.
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Looking out for mispriced betting opportunities and betting heavily when the odds are overwhelmingly in your favor is the ticket to wealth.
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Arbitrage is a powerful construct and a fundamental tool in the arsenal of any value investor. With arbitrage, we get decent returns with virtually no risk.
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Sniffing out an available arbitrage opportunity is what prompts entrepreneurs to embark on journeys that have lead to the creation of compelling businesses.
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When Leo Goodwin started GEICO, he probably never thought of it as being an arbitrage-type play. Yet, that’s exactly what GEICO was, and still is, all about. He saw no one was selling auto insurance direct. He thought it make all the sense in the world and started his journey.
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Most of the top-ranked business schools around the world do not understand the fundamentals of margin of safety…
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Most of the time, assets trade hands at or above their intrinsic value. The key, however, is to wait patiently for that super-fast pitch down the center.
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It is during the times of extreme distress and pessimism that rationality goes out the window and prices of certain assets go well below their underlying intrinsic value. Extreme distress can be caused by macro-events like 9/11 or the Cuban missile crisis. Or they can be company specific…
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We cannot predict which asset classes are likely o get distressed next. However, if we only focus on a single asset class of stocks, that encompasses thousands of businesses.
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Wall Street could not distinguish between risk and uncertainty, and it got confused between the two. Savvy investors like [Warren] Buffett and [Benjamin] Graham have been taking advantage of Mr. Market’s handicap for decades with spectacular results.
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For me, any sort of tech investment is a very fast five-second pass as they tend to be unpredictable, rapidly changing businesses.
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