Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.
Seth KlarmanGraham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough.
Seth KlarmanInvestment success cannot be captured in a mathematical equation or a computer program.
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