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“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget Rule No. 1.” This is one of Buffett’s most often quoted truisms, which sums up his investing philosophy.
On investing "One of the inane things [that gets] taught in modern university education is that a vast diversification is absolutely mandatory in investing in common stocks. That is an insane idea.
People discovered him, thinking that they would learn about ways to make money, but they got so much more,” Whitney Tilson, an investor and expert on both Buffett and Munger, told Before the Bell.
In the lead-up to Sept. 25's Worldwide Invest Better Day, The Motley Fool is reacquainting investors with the basic building blocks of investing. Here's the latest in our series of investing articles.
Cornfeld decided that mutual funds should take their fees from the profits they made for their investors, not just a percentage of the money invested. The IOS system collapsed in 1970. Cornfeld was arrested in Switzerland in 1973 and sentenced to 11 months in preventive prison; however, he was ultimately acquitted in 1979.
Animal spirits is a term used by John Maynard Keynes in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money to describe the instincts, proclivities and emotions that seemingly influence human behavior, which can be measured in terms of consumer confidence. [1]
Barton Michael Biggs (November 26, 1932 – July 14, 2012) was a money manager whose attention to emerging markets marked him as one of the world's first and foremost global investment strategists, a position he held—after inventing it in 1985—at Morgan Stanley, where he worked as a partner for over 30 years.
As I mentioned at the top, we're going to look back at great quotes from great books from Rule Breaker Investing Authors in August of the past. I've got five cued up. I'm excited to share with them.