Guy Spier
Guy Spier
Guy Spier is a Zurich-based investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in "the Checklist Manifesto", by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth4 February 1966
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The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.
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From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.
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I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.
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We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.
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Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn't want to discover what behavior he's capable of.
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I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.
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I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.
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Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles.
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One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.