Michael Steinhardt
Michael Steinhardt
Michael H. Steinhardtis an American hedge fund manager, financier, investor, newspaper publisher, and philanthropist active in Jewish causes. He was one of the first prominent hedge fund managers, and is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He founded Steinhardt, Fine, Berkowitz & Co., a hedge fund, in 1967. Author Sebastian Mallaby referred to Steinhardt as "a legend in the story of hedge funds, partly because of his success as a trader, but also because of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 December 1940
CountryUnited States of America
I was always anxious that my fees were egregious and that I had to have the best performance in the world to justify them.
I hope he has the breadth to do it.
Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.
I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.
Good investing is a peculiar balance between the conviction to follow your ideas and the flexibility to recognize when you have made a mistake.
The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.
A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.
Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds