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An incredible story of Stoicism, Resilience and the Human will.. Stockdale spent 7+ years in POW camp, 4+ years in isolation during Vietnam War Image
'To a Stoic, there is no such thing as being a 'victim', you can only be a 'victim' of yourself.' James Stockdale
'Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life.' Charlie Munger
After being shot down .. ‘so help me, I whispered to myself: ‘five years down there, at least. I’m leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.’ Image

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Feb 28
"We do not now give any guidance. Some analysts have asked us to give guidance, we prefer not to, however, I have said publicly that our goal is to grow net income 15% to 20% annually compounded. Over the last 30 years to 33 years, I think we have done that, and the actual growth has been somewhere around 18% or 19%."

Laurans Mendelson, HEICO Q1 2024
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"When you've got really talented people, who are running these businesses, who have really mastered their businesses we find that by giving them autonomy, that's a very intrinsically motivating feature. And that's not something that exists in many companies. If you look at HEICO overall, across all of HEICO, we've got roughly 100 business heads and for a company of our size to have 100 people of talent and skillset, where they performed so well and they really enjoy what they do, because of the way that they're treated, I think that's the real synergy here."

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Feb 24
Li Lu on Shorting…..

"Three things about shorting make it a miserable business.

On the long side, you have 100% downside but unlimited upside. On the short side, you have 100% upside and unlimited downside. I do not like that math.”

-Li Lu
“Second, the best short has some element of fraud. However, a fraud can be perpetrated for a long time. Of course you borrow to short, so they could really just wear you down. That’s why I could be 100% right and bankrupt at the same time. But, you know what, you go bankrupt first!”

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So, those are the three reasons why I just stay away from shorting. It was a mistake on my part.”

- Li Lu
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Jan 9
‘The average year of foundation of our portfolio companies at the year-end was 1916. Collectively they are over a century old.’

Fundsmith 2023 Letter…

#long_term

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‘We sold our stakes in Adobe, Amazon and Estée Lauder and purchased stakes in Procter & Gamble, Marriott and Fortinet. As last year this may seem a lot of names for what is not a lot of turnover as in some cases the size of the holding sold or bought was small. We have held ten of our companies for more than 10 years, five of which since inception in 2010.’
‘Equities benefit from a feature which no other asset class, including bonds, can provide: a portion of the profit or cash flow which belongs to the shareholders is reinvested each year by the company.’
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Dec 19, 2023
My son’s bookshelf .. coming along nicely!

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Nov 9, 2023
'There is only a tiny number of exceptional companies, There are some very specific things that permit exceptional companies to be sustainable decade after decade. Many of them are where the customers are fanatically reliant on you.' Reece Duca

Excellent

'The single most important thing as an investor - it's not the quantitative information - it's the qualitative information. It's having an arsenal of qualitative information that helps you reverse engineer the business model - What's actually happening in the company.'
'Having various mentors in my life dramatically changed the outcome.'
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‘I’ve read quite a lot about Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, and imagine that the people heading his various companies all think much more about long-term prosperity.’

- Sir Alex Ferguson
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‘When I hired someone to do something I trusted them to do it. I depended on them to get on with their job and come to me with any problems.’

- Sir Alex Ferguson

#empowerment
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