Guy Spier Quotes

Guy Spier — South African Businessman born on February 04, 1966,

Guy Spier is a Zurich-based investor and author of a book on investing entitled The Education of a Value Investor. He is well known for bidding US$650,100 with Mohnish Pabrai for a charity lunch with Warren Buffett in June 2007. In 2009, he was featured in "the Checklist Manifesto", by Atul Gawande regarding his use of checklists as part of his investment process... (wikipedia)

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough.

I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist... as somebody who's trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That's the version of capitalism that we want.

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.