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Singleton: Doing The Wrong Thing Looks Like The Right Thing, and Vice Versa.

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Rupert Hargreaves
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Something I find exciting is, for lack of a better word, stock market history, how great investors made an lost fortunes and how investors' perceptions change in different market environments.

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For example, last week I covered a highly critical article on Henry Singleton, which was published in Business Week magazine in May 1982. The article seemed to suggest Singleton had lost his magic touch and his common stock investments, which were made with cash from Teledyne's insurance business, were a slow-motion car crash in action.

"Now many of Teledyne's investments look weak. One of them -- 16% of ill-starred International Harvester Co., purchased mainly during the...

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for Hedge Fund Alpha