The key to my success is buying into troubled companies.

Activism is not about being hostile. It's about holding management accountable to shareholders.

Short selling is intellectually much harder than going long. You need to have a thesis, and you also need the courage to stick with it when things go against you.

-- David Einhorn

I look at a company the way a private buyer would look at it.

-- Mario Gabelli

I don't go to many meetings. I find reading the reports is usually more informative than talking to management.

-- Walter Schloss

There is no substitute for personally visiting companies and their countries.

-- Mark Mobius

We search through historical data looking for anomalous patterns that we would not expect to occur at random.

-- Jim Simons