Julian Robertson

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Julian Robertson- “America is a like a family who over-spent for years… “


Our mandate is to find the 200 best companies in the world and invest in them, and find the 200 worst companies in the world and go short on them. If the 200 best don’t do better than the 200 worst, you should probably be in another business.

Julian Robertson

It is a young man’s game.

Julian Robertson

I think that it´s almost armageddon if the chinese and japanese don´t buy our debt. I don´t know where we could get the money. Maybe we end up printing it and taking a million dollar bill to the grocery shop which you have to do now in Zimbabwe. I think we´ve let ourselves get into a terrible situation and I think we ought to try to get out of it. I think we can grow AND save our way out of it.

Julian Robertson

Hear a [stock] story, analyze and buy aggressively if it feels right.

Julian Robertson

America is a like a family who over-spent for years… has to de-lever itself.. take a long, long time for that to be completed.. I look for a long tough period for the American people.

Julian Robertson

I am not positioned long… I am short personally quite a bit.

Julian Robertson November 2008

So far I don’t think we had the blow to the economy that will eventually obviously come from the wealth devastation that’s occured the last several months.

Julian Robertson November 2008

General de-leveraging will be a strain on the economy for a long time.

Julian Robertson November 2008

We haven´t adressed so many of our problems, and we are borrowing so much money we can´t possibly pay it back, unless the chinese and japanese buy our bonds.

Julian Robertson

(We) bought some United this morning (Wednesday) strictly because it’s down like this, and it’s down when there’s an enormous opportunity in front of it.

Julian Robertson

Barton is in it for the love of the game. He loves the action.

Julian Robertson

…inflation could wipe out so many people.

Julian Robertson

…the leadership we´ve had for years who seems afraid to tell the people that we have problems, that we´ve got to quit spending, cut back, start saving, and scale backward. Until that happens I don´t think we´re anyway near out of the woods.

Julian Robertson

If the chinese and japanese stop buying our bonds we could easily see 15-20 [percent inflation]. Where is the money going to come from? It´s not a question of the economy. It´s a question of who is going to lend us the money.

Julian Robertson

When Robertson is convinced that he is right, Julian bets the farm.

former colleague of Julian Robertson at Tiger