Jean Marie Eveillard

“If you are a value investor, every now and then you lag, or experience what consultants call tracking error. It can be very painful. To be a value investor, you have to be willing to suffer pain.”

“Risk to us goes back to not paying attention to how one does in the short term.”

“Value investors tend to look for what they perceive to be stable businesses and technology is fast changing almost by definition.”

“What’s a hedge fund? It’s not an asset class, it’s a compensation scheme.”

“On Wall Street, you have all sorts of people who tell you on October 8, 2013, the Dow Jones will be at 18,225. You’re lucky if they don’t give you the decimals. Of course this is nonsense, nobody knows.”

“We look at the management of corporations that tend to overstate or massage profits as promoters. And that is a kind word.”

“If you are a long term investor, you don’t have to worry about market psychology.”

“I think there is a mindset among many professional investors that if I go down the drain, well it is o.k. as long as everyone else is going down the drain with me.”

“I have a great belief that everything is cyclical in life, particularly in the investment world.”

“Whether you’re investing in art or in securities, no one should confuse value and price.”

“At the end of every day, I look at my stocks that went up and wish I had more and look at the ones that went down and wish I had less. It’s human nature.”