Buying because you feel pressure is not investing.
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Voli siin ja seal uitavat tähelepanu vabatahtlikult tagasi tuua, ikka ja jälle, on otsustusvõime, iseloomu ja tahte alusmüür.
W. James
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Here’s the important bit, though: companies are like horses—if you look deep enough, there is something wrong with every single one of them.
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… price is actually least important, because time will fix errors on a wonderful business.
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Professional investors are smart people, but investing is not about being smart; it is about knowing what you’re buying will be worth more in ten years and being patient.
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Buffet’s point is that fund managers commonly buy and sell based on fear or greed, not on ruthlessly rational, fully informed decisions.
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… Benjamin Graham’s investing strategy of “mentally, always buying the business, not buying the stock”.
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If we all acted like we are adults who take responsibility for our financial decisions, we would have massive power. It would also make this investing thing a lot more fun.
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No matter how many books are written about failure being good, failing is usually a personal disaster.
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In the 1600s, the Dutch came up with the history-changing innovation that led to such marketplace as we now have: they divided a corporation into shares of stock—which just meant owning fractions of a company instead of the whole thing—that were available to be purchased by members of the public.
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… the Emotional Rule of Investing: as soon as you buy a stock expecting it to go up, it will go down—because you bought the stock.
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The only way to simply maintain today’s buying power of the money you have is by making more money on your money.
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In other words, real investing is about having a high degree of certainty that you’re going to make money because of the difference between what you paid and the the cash flow value you bought; everything else is speculating.
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