30 Most Famous Guy Spier Quotes (INVESTING)

Top 10 Most Famous Guy Spier Quotes (BEST)

“Books are a priceless source of wisdom. But people are the ultimate teachers, and there may be lessons that we can only learn from observing them or being in their presence.”
Guy Spier

The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions. — The entire pursuit of value **investing** requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions.

When your consciousness or mental attitude shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate business tool and life tool. — When your consciousness or mental **attitude** shifts, remarkable things begin to happen. That shift is the ultimate **business** tool and life tool.

The world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places.

People will always stop you doing the right thing if it’s unconventional.

“A goal that seems impossible in one instant can become entirely possible in the next if only you are willing to devote every ounce of your mind, body, and soul to reach it.”
Guy Spier

I’m trying to manage myself, not just my portfolio.

We can’t change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring. — We can’t **change** the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that investing requires is tough. — For most people, attaining the intellectual clarity and emotional detachment that **investing** requires is tough.

“I learned to see myself and my role as a capitalist… as somebody who’s trying to harness, for myself and for society, the power of greed and the power of the will to acquire into something that makes the world a better place. That’s the version of capitalism that we want.”
Guy Spier

2 Guy Spier Quotes on Environment

“But I think it’s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable — to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment — to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.”
Guy Spier

Our environment is much stronger than our intellect. Remarkably few investors—either amateur or professional—truly understand this critical point.

7 Guy Spier Quotes on Warren Buffett

“This became my own goal: not to be Warren Buffett, but to become a more authentic version of myself. As he had taught me, the path to true success is through authenticity.”
Guy Spier

One has to divide Warren Buffett into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett. — One has to divide **Warren Buffett** into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.

“From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself – people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.”
Guy Spier

Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles. — **Warren Buffett** has shown you can be very, very **successful** without being rapacious, while still being **honest**, without engaging in constant legal battles.

“Over the time that I followed Warren Buffett, one CFO told me, it’s very important to pay attention not only to what Warren Buffett says and what he actually does – often there are subtle differences between the two.”
Guy Spier

When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention. — When **Warren Buffett** says the sun shines out of somebody’s backside, it’s worth paying attention.

“Take any person, put them in the wrong environment, and they can get off to some pretty bad things. Warren Buffett has said that he would not like to get into debt because he doesn’t want to discover what behavior he’s capable of.”
Guy Spier

6 Wise Guy Spier Quotes About Life (WISDOM)

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.”
Guy Spier

To become a good investor, I would need to come to an acceptance of myself as an outsider. — To become a good **investor**, I would need to come to an **acceptance** of myself as an outsider.

The psychologist Roy Baumeister has shown that willpower is a limited resource, so we have to be careful not to deplete it. — The psychologist Roy Baumeister has shown that **willpower** is a limited resource, so we have to be careful not to deplete it.

“Buffett and Munger joke that envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that isn’t any fun. ‘Envy is crazy,’ remarks Munger. ‘It’s 100 percent destructive… If you get those things out of your life early, life works a lot better.’”
Guy Spier

Hang out with people better than you, and you cannot help but improve.

To live a great life is to have the love of a beautiful partner and the respect of honorable men. — To live a great life is to have the love of a beautiful partner and the **respect** of **honorable** men.

5 Guy Spier Quotes that Will Make You Think

“Did my education fail me? Or, even worse, did I fail my education? There’s a larger question to be asked here, too, since I’m also a microcosm of my peer group. Why did so many highly educated people from elite business schools and privileged background contribute to and exacerbate the financial crisis of 2008-2009? Did our education fail us? Or did we fail our education? These questions haven’t been answered adequately by the prestigious universities that groomed all these high-powered creators of economic mayhem.”
Guy Spier