Daniel S. Loeb
Daniel S. Loeb
Daniel Seth Loeb, known as Dan Loeb, is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder and chief executive of Third Point LLC, a New York-based hedge fund focused on event-driven, value-oriented investing with a portfolio worth $10.8 billion, as of March 2016...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 December 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.
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I really just started buying art as a passion. I never considered it an investment, but it ended up being a good investment.
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Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.
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I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparently internalized the key concepts - but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading 'Don Quixote,' Epictetus, 'The Aeneid,' 'King Lear' and 'Candide,' and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me.
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I fantasize that our politicians have been moved by the dialogues of Plato, and thus contemplate the ancient conflict of the sophists versus the lovers of truth.
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I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.
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Timing is everything in this markets.
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The only thing I do know is that from chaos comes opportunity.
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In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.
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I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.