"I love natural objects like pebbles and shells, but I would never have a lot of them out, " he adds.

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Yet smaller opportunities with a much lower risk and commensurately lower payoff, pebbles if you like, are less attractive in the short term but more valuable in the long term.

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This is like trying to get a clear picture of a mountain by examining individual pebbles.

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