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What does Warren Buffett, baseball and patience have to do with one another? It is how the small-town billionaire made his fortune. Being a big baseball fan, Buffett compares his investment philosophy to the wisdom he picked up from his favorite past time sport and his hero, Ted Williams. He told CNBC, “What’s nice about investing [...]

Time, can be considered a finite resource, since we always grumble that there are too many things to do but too little time. Even the world’s richest man, bill gates, that has and can have anything in the world faces the problem of the scarcity of time. Since to everyone, there is only 24 hours [...]

We all learn from our mistakes, and unfortunately when it comes to personal finance and investing, those mistakes can be costly. While I continue to learn something new everyday, and like to believe I am perpetually becoming a better investor, there are many things I wish I had known sooner. With experience comes smarter investing, but [...]

Usually, when the bad news hits a company’s short-term profitability but DOES NOT affect its competitive advantage to grow earnings in the future, its stock price will usually turn around after the initial decline. Most companies who report lower than expected quarterly earnings usually fall into this category. There are many factors that could cause a company’s [...]

Through my own course of learning to invest over the years, I have found that there are many very different philosophies and strategies that experts use to select stocks to achieve above average returns. Today, I use a whole range of different investment strategies myself, depending on whether I am looking for a quick intra-day gain [...]

Is it really true that investing is risky? The answer is… it depends. The risk in an activity very much depends on the level of competence of the person doing that activity. For example, is it risky to drive a car? Well, if you have never gone for any driving lessons and have no idea how to [...]

Lesson One: Invest From A Business Perspective One of the most important lessons Buffet learnt was to invest from a business perspective. Most people treat stocks like lottery tickets. Buying and selling based on predictions of whether the price will go up or down in the short term. Because stock prices go up and down randomly and [...]

Before you can successfully model a person’s investment strategy, you must first model their beliefs. It is a person’s beliefs about investing that shape their decisions, their actions and their results. Let’s us now compare the beliefs of the average investor or fund manager to the beliefs of Warrant Buffett Wall Street * Believes in broad diversification into [...]

Over the last 49 years, Warren Buffett managed to achieve a 24.7% annual compounding rate of return, which means he doubled his money every 2.9 years for half a century! He turned an investment of $100,000 into a staggering $42 billion. How was he able to consistently beat the market (only 10% of professional fund managers [...]

From a very early age young Buffett was obsessed with making money and had a very clear dream of becoming the world’s greatest investor. Born during the depression when his father was close to bankruptcy, Warren learnt about the value of money and the importance of being financially secure at an early age. Even before his teens, [...]