14 Quotes by Tren Griffin

All skills attenuate with disuse.

Robert Hagstrom wrote a wonderful book on worldly wisdom entitled Investing: The Last Liberal Art, in which he states that “each discipline entwines with, and in the process strengthens, every other. From each discipline the thoughtful person draws significant mental models, the key ideas that combine to produce a cohesive understanding.

Three things ruin people: drugs, liquor, and leverage.

I observe what works and what doesn’t and why.

Charlie Munger, the Easter Bunny, Superman, and a successful forecaster of an investment bank find themselves in their own corner of a large square-shaped trading floor. In the center of the room is a large stack of $100 bills. If each of them starts racing toward the center of the floor at the same time, who gets the money? The answer is Munger, because the other three don’t exist!

Learning from the success and failure of others is the fastest way to get smarter and wiser without a lot of pain.

In Buffett’s view, if you cannot write it down, you have not thought it through.

Buffett has said that the stock market is designed to transfer money “from the active to the patient.

There’s an old expression on this subject, which is really an expression on moral theory: “How nice it is to have a tyrant’s strength and how wrong it is to use it like a tyrant.