The record of a money manager who merely stays close to the market is not an outstanding record—it is a record of someone who has successfully rationalized doing nothing. The question is not whether you beat the market, but whether you had the intellectual honesty to know when you had no edge and the discipline to act accordingly.

Seth Klarman, Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor (1991)
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@underscored·July 26, 2026