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Mohnish Pabrai is an Indian-American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

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The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!

Humans, Investing, News, Problem

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

Nonprofits, Problem, Run, Running

The only way one should buy stocks is if you understand the underlying business. You stay within the circle of competence. You buy businesses you understand.

Business, Circles, Should, Stocks, Understand, Way

Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.

Confused, Gives, Profit, Wall, Winning

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

Desirable, Firmly, Mistake, People, Teacher, Teachers

You don’t make money when you buy stocks. And you don’t make money when you sell stocks. You make money by waiting.

Make, Making Money, Sell, Sells, Stocks, Waiting

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Everything, Lunch, Lunches, Reality, Taking, Thinking

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

Classic, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Risk

People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

Education, India, People, Poverty

I have a hard time getting past the day without the nap, so the nap is a must.

Day, Hard Times, Nap, Naps, Past, Time

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldnt have even a fraction of my current success.

Fractions, Ideas, Likely, Proud, Wouldnt

Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much.

Heads, Loses, Tails, Win, Winning

Warren Buffett has said many times that people either get value investing in five minutes or they won't get it in five years. So, there is something in the human brain, that for some of us, makes all the difference in the world right away and the patience it requires is part of the wiring process.

Away, Differences, People, Said, Warren, Years

There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

Investing, Mistake, Mistakes, Traps, Value