Part of the game of investing is to come into your own. You must find some way that perfectly fits your personality because there is some element of a zero sum game in investing. If you buy, somebody else has to sell. And when you sell, somebody has to buy. You can't both be right.

Li Lu

In my view, the biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital. Not only is the mere drop in stock prices not risk, but it is an opportunity. Where else do you look for cheap stocks?

Li Lu

To us, anyone who opposes dictatorship is our friend. Those who support it, our enemy.

Li Lu

When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.

Li Lu

Without a free man, there is no free market. That's called exploitation.

Li Lu

Everyone has blind spots, and even the brightest people are no exceptions.

Li Lu

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

Li Lu

The financial crisis of 2008-09 was in large part the result of the so-called 'success' of people who did not understand their fiduciary duty. This kind of 'success' is extremely harmful to all of society.

Li Lu

Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don't know. That's your probability edge.

Li Lu

The game of investing is a process of discovering who you are, what you're interested in, what you're good at, what you love to do, then magnifying that until you gain a sizable edge over all the other people.

Li Lu

Only by a process of peaceful evolution can China accomplish its own goals of being a free, prosperous, and strong country.

Li Lu

I have three lovely children. They are beautiful, talented, and kind-hearted. I'm most proud of them. I love them so much that I will never want to burden them with a large amount of inherited wealth.

Li Lu

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

Li Lu

Management is always part of the equation of making the company successful, so the quality of management always matters.

Li Lu

The whole thing is, really, money makes money. That's the whole thing about capitalism. Without the capital, there is no -ism.

Li Lu

A 'competence' that has no defined borders cannot be called a true competence.

Li Lu

Management always has a big influence on your success, no matter how good or how bad the business is itself.

Li Lu

Whatever you are is because of what your ancestors have done.

Li Lu

Politically, China suppresses its people, but because the government allows some freedom in economic matters, business has become the ultimate expression of individuality.

Li Lu

I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost personal freedom simply for being intellectuals. So I spent most of my childhood rotating between adopted families of peasants and coalminers.

Li Lu

All companies incur expenses, some of which are fixed and bear no relation to sales volumes. In this way, profits can grow at a faster rate than sales.

Li Lu