How Warren Buffett was influenced by Philip Fisher

If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is – almost never
If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is – almost never
Buffett analyzed companies more subjectively than Graham, and he found intrinsic value in companies, such as See’s Candies, that Graham would not have touched.
I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong
A high ratio of price to book value, a high price-earnings ratio, and a low dividend yield – are in no way inconsistent with a ‘value’ purchase.
If a company’s capital expenditures are simply maintaining the company’s position in its markets, it free cash flow may be unduly high
About forty years ago Buffett experienced a Damascene conversion
We are going to want to get a significantly higher return, obviously — in terms of cash produced relative to the amount we’re outlaying now — for a business than we are from a government bond. That has to be the yardstick at a base.
Opinions of fair value based on DCF calculations are necessarily inexact (rightly vague?). But, at least they at least ask the right question.
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