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Howard Marks's Quotes

Overview

Known for credit investing discipline and widely read market memos.

Style

Credit cycles, distressed debt, second-level thinking

Firm

Oaktree Capital Management

Period

1946-

Howard Marks

Quotes

Memorable ideas rewritten as practical investing lessons.

Memorable ideas

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Good returns often come from understanding credit cycles, pricing risk, and acting when the crowd is too pessimistic.

The greatest risk often appears when people believe risk is gone.

Understand credit cycles before buying risky assets.

Pricing must compensate for the probability of loss.

Second-level thinking helps avoid expensive consensus.