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7.
Investing behavior should be driven by information, analysis, and self-discipline, not by
emotion or “hunch”
. Buffett repeatedly emphasized awareness and information as the
foundation for investing. He said, “Anyone not aware of the fool in the market probably is
the fool in the market.”
17
Buffett was fond of repeating a parable told to him by Benjamin
Graham:
There was a small private business and one of the owners was a man named
Market. Every day, Mr. Market had a new opinion of what the business was
worth, and at that price stood ready to buy your interest or sell you his. As
excitable as he was opinionated, Mr. Market presented a constant distraction to
his fellow owners. “What does he know?” they would wonder, as he bid them an
extraordinarily high price or a depressingly low one. Actually, the gentleman
knew little or nothing. You may be happy to sell out to him when he quotes you a
ridiculously high price, and equally happy to buy from him when his price is low.
But the rest of the time, you will be wiser to form your own ideas of the value of
your holdings, based on full reports from the company about its operation and
financial position.
18
Buffett used this allegory to illustrate the irrationality of stock prices as compared to true
intrinsic value. Graham believed that an investor’s worst enemy was not the stock market,
but oneself. Superior training could not compensate for the absence of the requisite
temperament for investing. Over the long term, stock prices should have a strong relationship
with the economic progress of the business. But daily market quotations were heavily
influenced by momentary greed or fear, and were an unreliable measure of intrinsic value.
Buffett said,
As far as I am concerned, the stock market doesn’t exist. It is there only as a
reference to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in
stocks, we invest in businesses. You simply have to behave according to what is
rational rather than according to what is fashionable.
19
Accordingly, Buffett did not try to “time the market” (i.e., trade stocks based on expectations
of changes in the market cycle)—his was a strategy of patient, long-term investing. As if in
contrast to Mr. Market, Buffett expressed more contrarian goals: “We simply attempt to be
fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
20
Buffett also
said, “Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style,”
21
and
“The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the
market does not forgive those who know not what they do.”
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7.
Investing behavior should be driven by information, analysis, and self-discipline, not by
emotion or “hunch”
. Buffett repeatedly emphasized awareness and information as the
foundation for investing. He said, “Anyone not aware of the fool in the market probably is
the fool in the market.”
17
Buffett was fond of repeating a parable told to him by Benjamin
Graham:
There was a small private business and one of the owners was a man named
Market. Every day, Mr. Market had a new opinion of what the business was
worth, and at that price stood ready to buy your interest or sell you his. As
excitable as he was opinionated, Mr. Market presented a constant distraction to
his fellow owners. “What does he know?” they would wonder, as he bid them an
extraordinarily high price or a depressingly low one. Actually, the gentleman
knew little or nothing. You may be happy to sell out to him when he quotes you a
ridiculously high price, and equally happy to buy from him when his price is low.
But the rest of the time, you will be wiser to form your own ideas of the value of
your holdings, based on full reports from the company about its operation and
financial position.
18
Buffett used this allegory to illustrate the irrationality of stock prices as compared to true
intrinsic value. Graham believed that an investor’s worst enemy was not the stock market,
but oneself. Superior training could not compensate for the absence of the requisite
temperament for investing. Over the long term, stock prices should have a strong relationship
with the economic progress of the business. But daily market quotations were heavily
influenced by momentary greed or fear, and were an unreliable measure of intrinsic value.
Buffett said,
As far as I am concerned, the stock market doesn’t exist. It is there only as a
reference to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in
stocks, we invest in businesses. You simply have to behave according to what is
rational rather than according to what is fashionable.
19
Accordingly, Buffett did not try to “time the market” (i.e., trade stocks based on expectations
of changes in the market cycle)—his was a strategy of patient, long-term investing. As if in
contrast to Mr. Market, Buffett expressed more contrarian goals: “We simply attempt to be
fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.”
20
Buffett also
said, “Lethargy bordering on sloth remains the cornerstone of our investment style,”
21
and
“The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the
market does not forgive those who know not what they do.”
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