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Mohnish Pabrai - Investment Philosophy

The investment philosophy and approach of Mohnish Pabrai.

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Mohnish Pabrai - Investment Philosophy

The Power of Cloning

Pabrai's core insight is that most humans have an aversion to cloning—they consider it "beneath themselves" if they didn't originate the idea. However:

"I found that there was a very small sliver of humans who were master cloners, and these humans owned the world."

His evidence: Sam Walton cloned Sol Price's model for Costco; Microsoft cloned Apple's Windows; James Sinegal said "Everything I know is from Sol Price."

Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously

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Summary

Indian-American value investor, author of The Dhandho Investor, known for shamelessly cloning Buffett and Munger's approach


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