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    Default 'GURU' Investing Philosophies in 10 Words or Less !!!

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    (snip)"Jason Zweig recently published a superb piece about investing philosophies. He asked a simple question – can you describe you investing philosophy in 10 words or less? Well, can you? Here are Zweig’s answers from many gurus:

    Determine value. Then buy low, sell high.

    —David Herro, chief investment officer for international equities, Harris Associates, and manager of Oakmark International Fund

    If everybody wants it, I don’t. Avoid crowds.

    —Gus Sauter, chief investment officer, the Vanguard Group

    Other people are smarter than you think they are. Index.

    —Laurence B. Siegel, research director, Research Foundation of the CFA Institute

    Risk means more things can happen than will happen.

    —Elroy Dimson, expert on long-term stock returns, London Business School, and co-author, “Triumph of the Optimists”

    Invest for the long term and ignore interim aggravation.

    – Charles D. Ellis, director, Greenwich Associates, and author, “Winning the Loser’s Game”

    100% of business value depends on the future.

    —Bill Miller, chairman and chief investment officer, Legg Mason Capital Management

    Plan for the worst. Hope for the best.

    —Robert Rodriguez, managing partner, First Pacific Advisors

    Control what you can: your savings rate, costs, and taxes.

    – Don Phillips, president, fund research, Morningstar

    In the end, you cannot take your investments with you.

    – Meir Statman, finance professor, Santa Clara University, and author, “What Investors Really Want”

    The less portfolio management costs, the more you earn.

    —Burton Malkiel, professor of economics emeritus, Princeton University, and author of “A Random Walk on Wall Street”

    Own competently managed, competitively advantaged businesses at discounted prices.

    —O. Mason Hawkins, chairman and chief executive officer, Southeastern Asset Management

    Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

    – William J. Bernstein, Efficient Frontier Advisors, and author, “The Four Pillars of Investing”

    Fallible, emotional people determine price; cold, hard cash determines value.

    —Christopher C. Davis, chairman, Davis Advisors and co-manager, Davis New York Venture Fund

    Save. Invest long-term. Compounding returns builds. Compounding costs destroys. Courage!

    –John C. Bogle, founder, the Vanguard Group

    Are you smarter than the average professional investor? Probably not.

    – William F. Sharpe, emeritus professor of finance, Stanford University, and Nobel Laureate in economics

    Finally, it’s worth remembering that the great investing analyst Benjamin Graham engaged in a similar exercise (also evoking Lincoln’s tale) but came in seven words under our maximum:

    In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into the single phrase, ‘This too will pass.” Confronted with a like challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, MARGIN OF SAFETY.”

    —Benjamin Graham, “The Intelligent Investor,” Chapter 20."(snip)


    Also volunteered by several members of a professional investor's BBS ...

    'Go short when the VIX hits the teens'

    'Buy the dips, short the spikes'

    'Buy gold, forget about it'


    and my own personal favorite ...

    'Don't fight the FED'

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    This video from last April is more than 10 words but worth watching.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/break...01153-039.html

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