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Top 30 Peter Cundill Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Cundill Quote: “There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.”

1. “There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.”

2. “The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.”

3. “Protect the downside. Worry about the margin of safety.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.”

4. “Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.”

5. “The share price must be less than book value. Preferably it will be less than net working capital less long term debt.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “When a stock doubles, sell half – then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.”

6. “When a stock doubles, sell half – then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.”

7. “The company must be paying dividends. Preferably the dividend will have been increasing and have been paid for some time.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde’s comment that “saints always have a past and sinners always have a future,” so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.”

8. “I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde’s comment that “saints always have a past and sinners always have a future,” so no investment should be ruled out simply on the basis of past history. We focus on liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis alone.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong.”

9. “Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.”

10. “You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “Curiosity is the engine of civilisation.”

11. “Curiosity is the engine of civilisation.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we’re comfortable with new lows.”

12. “What differentiates us from other money managers with a similar style is that we’re comfortable with new lows.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.”

13. “In every analysis you need to isolate what the real assets are and you must not forget to examine the franchise to do business, to review the character and competence of the management and to estimate the outcome if the whole business had to be turned into cash.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.”

14. “Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic and pessimistic side.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.”

15. “There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.”

16. “We always look at the margin of safety in the balance sheet and then worry about the business.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents.”

17. “All we try to do is buy a dollar for 40 cents.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can’t go down to zero. It can.”

18. “I bought stuff at 3.5 cents once and I thought it can’t go down to zero. It can.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “If it is cheap enough, we don’t care what it is.”

19. “If it is cheap enough, we don’t care what it is.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.”

20. “The price earning multiple must be less than ten or the inverse of the long term corporate bond rate, whichever is the less.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “I’m lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I’m working or whether I’m playing.”

21. “I’m lucky to have the kind of life where the differentiation between work and play is absolutely zilch. I have no idea whether I’m working or whether I’m playing.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.”

22. “The price must be less than one half of the former high and preferably at or near its all time low.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.”

23. “There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.”

24. “Try to pick a fund manager who has a well-defined strategy, has been through these things before, and go invest and stay with him.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.”

25. “The difference between the price we pay for a stock and its liquidation value gives us a margin of safety. This kind of investing is one of the most effective ways of achieving good long term results.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.”

26. “They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “We do liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis only.”

27. “We do liquidation analysis and liquidation analysis only.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.”

28. “To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.”

29. “The company must be profitable. Preferably it will have increased its earnings for the past five years and there will have been no deficits over that period.”

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Peter Cundill Quote: “I suspect that my thinking is an eclectic mix, not pure net-net because I couldn’t do it anyway so you have to have a new something to hang your hat on. But the framework stays the same.”

30. “I suspect that my thinking is an eclectic mix, not pure net-net because I couldn’t do it anyway so you have to have a new something to hang your hat on. But the framework stays the same.”

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