investor
also referred to as: investors
4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 5, 2021 by Michael Mauboussin · across every show →
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Oct 5, 2021
Mauboussin: Great Investors Are Differentiated by Temperament, Not Technical Skills
“What differentiates good to great investors has little to do with their sort of technical skills, like their ability to build spreadsheets or whatever, and much more about their temperament. And in particular, their ability to make decisions under some sort of…”
Mar 15, 2022
Barton via Gerstner: Entrepreneurs focus on possibility, investors on probability
“Being an entrepreneur is the art of the possible. Right? You have to will things into existence. And he said, you know, you constantly think about what can go wrong. When you're an entrepreneur, oftentimes you have to suspend disbelief and just think about wha…”
Aug 30, 2022 neutral
May 18, 2026 neutral
Active investing is mathematically zero-sum before fees are subtracted
“If you take all the winners and all the losers and sum them up, And don't take out any fees. You come up with zero. Every positive winner on the side of a trade has a loser on the other side of the trade. And so in aggregate, all investors together are the mar…”