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“It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly if you're the lucky manager).”

Ifs Humans Human Nature Lucky Skills Luck Investing Patterns Managers Explanation

Author:William J. Bernstein

“99% of fund managers demonstrate no evidence of skill whatsoever.”

Skills Evidence Investing Managers Fund

Author:William J. Bernstein

“Unfortunately, skill in evaluating the business prospects of a firm is not sufficient for successful stock trading, where the key question is whether the information about the firm is already incorporated in the price of the stock. Traders apparently lackthe skill to answer this crucial question, but they appear to be ignorant of their ignorance.”

Answers Successful Information Ignorance Keys Skills Investing Ignorant Firm Sufficient Crucial Trading Prospects Traders

Book:Thinking, Fast and Slow

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Finally, the illusions of validity and skill are supported by a powerful professional culture. We know that people can maintain an unshakeable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among the chosen few who can do what they believe others cannot.”

Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow

“Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.”

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Author:Ronald Ross

“Learn how to ignore the examples from others when they are wrong, because few skills are more worth having.”

Example Skills Investing

Author:Charlie Munger

“Smart tech investor thinks about: a) future product roadmap, b) bottoms-up market size & growth, c) talent and skill of team. Essentially you are valuing things that have not yet happened, and the likelihood of the CEO and team being able to make them happen. Finance people find this appalling, but investors who do this well can make a lot of money.”

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Author:Marc Andreessen

“My mistake was to project my skill beyond the limits of experience. I began investing outside the industries which I believe I thoroughly understood, in completely different spheres of activity; situations where I did not have comparable background knowledge.”

Believe Different I Believe Mistake Situation Industry Activity Skills Limits Projects Understood Investing Backgrounds Spheres My Mistakes Background Knowledge

Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Index investing is an investment strategy that Walter Mitty would love. It takes very little investment knowledge, no skill, practically no time or effort-and outperforms about 80 percent of all investors.”

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Book:The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Source: The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

“We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills.”

Mean Country Attention Skills Workers Investing Pay Attention Bridges Wages

Author:Barack Obama