Value investor Joel Greenblatt comes across as quite the colorful character when he wants to. Which seems to be often enough. Then again, with his extremely impressive resume, perhaps he’s earned the right to it.
Greenblatt founded private investment partnership Gotham Capital, where he’s still a managing partner. He’s a professor at Columbia business School, former chairman of Alliant Techsystems – a Fortune 500 company – co-founder of the Value Investors Club, and an author to boot.
So no matter his amusing levels of bluntness (or perhaps because of it), Greenblatt seems like a smart