The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

I wasn't wrong, I was just early.

People want an authority to tell them how to value things, but they choose this authority not based on facts or results.

You have to understand the business before you understand the stock.

-- Mario Gabelli

The key to investing is figuring out what something is worth and paying less for it.

-- Mario Gabelli

Buying good companies at bargain prices is the secret to making a lot of money.

-- Joel Greenblatt

You don't get rewarded for taking risk; you get rewarded for buying cheap assets.

-- Jeremy Grantham

The stock market is the only business I know that when things go on sale, the customers run out of the store.

-- Leon G. Cooperman

I always look for a company where the stock price is below what I believe the value of the enterprise to be.

-- Leon G. Cooperman