If I plug my estimates into the Magic Formula, and it comes out cheap, that's good.

Value investing doesn't always work. The market doesn't always agree with you. Over time, value is roughly the way the market prices stocks, but over the short term, which sometimes can be as long as two or three years, there are periods when it doesn't work. And that is a very good thing. The fact that our value approach doesn't work over periods of time is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable.

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

I still believe that for good business analysts a concentrated portfolio is a good strategy combined with a long term horizon. Once again, the secret to success in following the formula strategy is patience, a quality in short supply for both professionals and individual investors alike. I think investors should have a large portion of their assets in equities over time.