45 Quotes by David Einhorn

When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

The loss was not bad luck. It was bad analysis.

In the real world, illiquid assets carry a discount.

One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.

As an investor my job is to figure out what will happen rather than what should happen.

What do you call a stock that’s down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.

When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them ‘I run a hedge fund.’ The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, ‘I am a money manager.’ When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, ‘I’m an investor.’ Everyone knows what that is.

When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don’t expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.