I'd always said that if a guy was long the best 50 companies he knew and short the 50 worst, if that didn't work you were in the wrong business. But that strategy was literally a recipe for bankruptcy from 1998 to 2000. I said when I closed down that it was a market I didn't understand, and I didn't.
Source: Value Investor Insight's Words of Wisdom
Tags: value investing, shorting
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