Rick Carew ’12 writes "Hard to pick one, but the first time I met him in Hong Kong during the global financial crisis, he showed me how so many of the great companies in the world were so undervalued. In a time of pessimism he had a positive light about the future that only a true value investor could have in that moment. And he was right to see what lay in the future. Beyond that, he's always been the kindest of humans and willing to share his time and knowledge expecting little in return. I will be forever grateful for him as a professor and as a friend."

Tom Russo, partner at Gardner Russo Gardner and Heilbrunn Center advisory board member writes "Sitting or standing in front of a class of appreciative students romancing them with both his grasp of financial theory and his specific investing experiences, much of which has come to him through his network of value investment industry professional colleagues and more recently from his considerable activity as the chief investment officer of First Eagle. Bruce seems rarely in better form than performing in front of a group of like-minded investors urging them to take caution against the knowable yet predictable errors in judgment that often trap active portfolio managers."

William von Mueffling ’95, Founder/President/CIO of Cantillon Capital Management, Heilbrunn Center Advisory Board Chair and Columbia Business School Board of Overseers member writes "When I took Value Investing with Bruce in 1995, I submitted a 60 page paper to him which he returned with a big line through the cover with four words: 'this is a commodity business.' This moment changed the way I thought about investing for the rest of my career."