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Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.

– David Swensen

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

– Steve Jobs

Performance is what happens when events collide with an existing portfolio.

– Howard Marks

The greatest pleasure I’ve had is to try to do something that people said would never be done.

– Ratan Tata

Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan doesn’t make you a genius.

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The most robust contribution to knowledge consists in removing what we think is wrong—subtractive epistemology.

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb