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Robert D. Arnott

Many investors prefer comfort, chasing what is popular and loved, rather than pursuing what is out of favor. The markets do not reward comfort.

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Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

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Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

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