Successful investors like stocks better when they’re going down. When you go to a department store or a supermarket, you like to buy merchandise on sale, but it doesn’t work that way in the stock market. In the stock market, people panic when stocks are going down, so they like them less when they should like them more. When prices go down, you shouldn’t panic, but it’s hard to control your emotions when you’re overextended, when you see your net worth drop in half and you worry that you won’t have enough money to pay for your kids’ college.

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

Always remembering that we might be wrong, we must contemplate alternatives, concoct hedges, and search vigilantly for validation of our assessments. We always sell when a security's price begins to reflect full value, because we are never sure that our thesis will be precisely correct.

It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.

The prevailing view has been that the market will earn a high rate of return if the holding period is long enough, but entry point is what really matters.

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

It sounds kind of crazy, but in times of turmoil in the market, I've felt a sort of serenity in knowing that I've checked and re-checked my work, one plus one still equals two regardless of where a stock trades right after I buy it.