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Jeremy Grantham

…how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

Moving

Numbers

Regret

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

Monsters

Weak

Years

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

Dice

Long

Uzbekistan

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven’t got a clue.

Bears

Men

Real

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

California

Cells

Thinking

By background I’m both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Backgrounds

Jeopardy

Quaker

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Believe

Profit

Term

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

Boring

Disgusting

Equity

Everyone asks about gold. This is the irony: just as Jim Grant tells us (correctly) that we all have faith-based paper currencies backed by nothing, it is equally fair to say that gold is a faith-based metal. It pays no dividend, cannot be eaten, and is mostly used for nothing more useful than jewelry. I would say that anything of which 75% sits idly and expensively in bank vaults is, as a measure of value, only one step up from the Polynesian islands that attached value to certain well-known large rocks that were traded.

Gold

Islands

Rocks

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

Believe

Investing

Matter

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Agriculture

Air

Animal

Aspire

Attractive

Average

Backgrounds

Bags

Bears

Believe

Bmw

Boring

Broken

Buying

California

Cells

Challenges

Clients

Competition

Country

Courses

Data

Dice

Disgusting

Economics

Environmental

Equity

Exception

Extremes

Financial

Financial Markets

Giving

Gold

Gone

Hate

Helping

Ideas

Idiot

Impossible

Individual

Intelligent

Investing

Islands

Issues

Jeopardy

Jobs

Junk

Kings

Land

Locks

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Quotes by Jeremy Grantham

Jeremy Grantham

Although value is a weak force in any single year, it becomes a monster over several years. Like gravity, it slowly wears down the opposition.

Americans are just about the worst at dealing with long-term problems, down there with Uzbekistan, but they respond to a market signal better than almost anyone. They roll the dice bigger and quicker than most.

At least us old men remember what a real bear market is like, and the young men haven’t got a clue.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

By background I’m both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Capitalism believes that its remit is exclusively to make maximum short-term profits.

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

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