Guy Spier: Take Calculated Risks

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During this interview with IWT, Guy Spier discusses taking calculated risks. Spier says it’s better to carefully walk down a path, even if you don’t know where it leads, than to jump off a cliff without a plan. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Spier: Managing my own psychology and … Read More

Guy Spier: The Power Of Doing Nothing

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In this interview with Investing With Tom, Guy Spier discusses the power of doing nothing. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Spier: Any case I couldn’t think of anything else, and eventually the pressure came too great for me and I sold the shares at two dollars a share, and … Read More

Guy Spier: Placing Right-Sized Bets

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In his recent interview on the Investing With Tom Podcast, Guy Spier discussed placing right-sized bets. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Spier: Well the investment that we make obviously we make the investment hoping it’s going to be a multi-bagger but we don’t know, we can’t predict. So we … Read More

Guy Spier: Unlearning And Relearning From Warren Buffett

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In his latest interview on The Investors Podcast, Guy Spier discusses unlearning and relearning from Warren Buffett. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Spier: I am going to the Berkshire meeting, and there’s this wonderful investor who’s extraordinarily wealthy I suspect at this point, who lives on an island in … Read More

Guy Spier: Munger Sees What Others Cannot

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In his latest interview on the What Got You There Podcast, Guy Spier explains why he would like to sit down with Charlie Munger. Here’s an excerpt from the interview Spier: I would love to sit down with Charlie Munger. I think that he’s got an extraordinary mind. At the … Read More

Guy Spier: Value Investing Will Never Die

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In his recent interview with Kiana Danial, Guy Spier discusses why value investing, or as he puts it, intelligent investing, will never die. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Spier: Value investing is not dead. Intelligent investing is not dead. To just go into it in a little bit more … Read More

Guy Spier: Top 10 Holdings (Q1 2020)

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One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

Guy Spier: Top 10 Holdings

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One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

Here’s How Successful Investors Dampen Down Their Investing ‘Cocaine Brain’ – Pabrai, Spier

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As investors we all know the excitement we feel when we come across what we think is an undervalued opportunity that seems to have been overlooked by most other investors. The feeling of exhilaration that we get is called “cocaine brain.” Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the … Read More