Strive for excellence in investment management.
Treat investors as partners and strive for excellence in our dealings with them.
Invest our money alongside our investors.
Treat our people as our primary asset.
Operate profitably and be frugal with our costs.
Treat success with humility and failings with honesty.
Conduct ourselves at all times with integrity and fairness.
Apply an intelligent, valuation-based approach to long-term investing.
Strive for excellence in primary research.
Focus; we diversify only to the point of necessity to protect us from our mistakes.
Avoid permanent losses of capital.
Be aware of the extent of our knowledge base and only operate within it.
Avoid leverage.
Learn from our mistakes.
Keep learning from the wisdom of others.