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In an in-depth interview, Professor Aswath Damodaran discusses valuation, data and investing

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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "I think the first thing investors have to be asking is whether they should be doing a valuation in the first place. Because valuation requires two things: One is it requires the willingness to learn the basic tools, and many investors want to do the valuation but they don't want to learn about accounting. They want to do valuation but they don't want to learn about present value. They want to do valuation but they don't want to understand the basics that drive risk and return. And that's lazy. It's lazy and it leads to you spending a lot of time thinking you're valuing companies and you walk away with actually nothing to show for it."

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