“…the most important but the most difficultâ€toâ€identify ability in business management (or investment)
is the ability to judge other men’s ability to judge. Economists dislike the notion of judgment not only
because they have no way of verifying that it is not actually luck but also because it limits economics. If
good judgment is a driving force of capitalism, then economics as modern professors wish to practice it
can’t explain capitalism. Economics want to be physics.” – Andrew Redleaf in his book, Panic: The
Betrayal of Capitalism by Wall Street and Washington
Much to the consternation of economists and academics everywhere, judgment can neither be defined
nor measured. By extension, investing is art, not science and great investing begins and ends with sound
judgment. We recognize that our philosophy can be difficult to accept as it can tilt against conventional
wisdom, simple heuristics, Nobel Prize winning academic studies, or the math and science that might
suggest a different path. Investing cannot be modeled or tightly controlled like a physics experiment.
Investing is hard work and never ending. While we pledge to continue our hard work, we believe that it
should be on the basis of our judgment that we ourselves should be judged.
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