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The job of an investor is not to be optimistic or pessimistic. It is to figure out what is true.

investing— Elliott Management investor letter, 2014
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We are not a vulture fund. We are a fund that enforces contracts.

distressed-debt— Bloomberg interview, 2012
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Most investors are optimistic because pessimism doesn't sell. We try to see the world as it actually is.

risk— Elliott Management investor letter, 2016
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Gold is the one asset that retains value when everything else is being debased.

macro— Elliott Management investor letter, 2018
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Sovereign immunity is not a license to steal. Contracts must mean something, or the global financial system breaks down.

philosophy— Legal filing, NML Capital v. Argentina, 2013
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The seeds of the next crisis are always planted in the solution to the last one.

macro— Elliott Management annual letter, 2011