“One time I was having dinner with Charlie, and he mentioned that ‘if an investor did just three things … the end results would be vastly better than the rest.’ He said, ‘one is carefully look at what the other great investors have done.’ The second thing he said is, ‘look at the cannibals,’ [or] look carefully at the businesses that are buying back huge amounts of their stock. And the third is…carefully study spinoffs. And so I found it interesting that Charlie basically said that an investment operation that focused on these three attributes would do exceedingly well.”
— Mohnish Pabrai, reflecting upon a conversation he had with Charlie Munger