16 Dec 2009 A Top Value Investor Dies - A Career Spent Finding Value ( Portfolio )
To thrive as a value investor, Christopher H. Browne once said, you have to "risk being called a dummy from time to time."

"Investment management is for us a 'grunt work' business," Mr. Browne wrote in a 2001 letter to shareholders. "Were you to visit our offices, you would be reminded more of the reading room in a college library than some frenetic trading room at a major brokerage firm."