<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698</id><updated>2024-10-24T23:35:43.523-07:00</updated><category term="advice"/><category term="stock"/><category term="warren buffett"/><category term="Tieng Viet"/><category term="Ben Graham"/><category term="Food for thought"/><category term="affiliate marketing"/><category term="kids"/><title type='text'>Value Investing!</title><subtitle type='html'>The place to share investing knowledge, ideas!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14055383346156173286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>42</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698.post-6876349249003760631</id><published>2013-07-04T16:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2013-07-04T16:41:43.020-07:00</updated><title type='text'>14. Super Investors&#39; Day 2012 - Ông David Jensen</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; src=&quot;//www.youtube.com/embed/5A39FCMDKJk&quot; width=&quot;459&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/feeds/6876349249003760631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3767377003116408698/6876349249003760631' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/6876349249003760631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/6876349249003760631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/2013/07/14-super-investors-day-2012-ong-david.html' title='14. Super Investors&#39; Day 2012 - Ông David Jensen'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14055383346156173286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698.post-8614515648852549858</id><published>2013-07-04T16:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2013-07-04T16:27:03.026-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="advice"/><title type='text'>The Incredible Joy of Financial Independence</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; line-height: 21.988636016845703px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-top: 11px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.596590995788574px;&quot;&gt;By&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;qsAdd qs-source-iapsitlnk0000002&quot; href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/profile/tmfbigfrog/info.aspx?source=iapsitlnk0000002&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.596590995788574px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span content=&quot;Chuck Saletta&quot; itemprop=&quot;author&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Chuck Saletta&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.596590995788574px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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About a year ago -- around Independence Day 2012 -- my wife and I reached an important financial milestone, our own Financial Independence Day. We were in our mid-30s, with four kids and only one working-for-pay adult amid one of the worst job markets in generations, but we were&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;free&lt;/em&gt;. Not rich, mind you, but free nonetheless.&lt;/div&gt;
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When we ran the numbers, we discovered that with reasonable returns on our investments, we could stay in our house, cover COBRA/HIPAA health insurance premiums, and feed our family home-cooked meals. The kids would be on their own for college, our entertainment budget would consist of walks to the park for picnics, and we&#39;d have to downsize our transportation to just the (paid-off) minivan. But still, we had a reasonable chance of making bare-minimum ends meet without working.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Peace throughout turbulent times&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The transformation in our lives was astounding and almost instantaneous. I still work, as we want better than subsistence living and to help our kids start their lives without excessive debt, but I was able to land two jobs that were about as close to ideal fits for me as exist in the job market. That only happened because we had the freedom to ask for what we wanted at a time when many others were simply happy to have&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;any&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;job.&lt;/div&gt;
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In addition to the awesome jobs, I also regained the ability to attend most of my kids&#39; sporting events, spend most weekends and some evenings with them, and tackle some of the overdue &quot;honey-do&quot; list. For the first time in&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;years&lt;/em&gt;, our work and life were in some semblance of balance, thanks almost entirely to reaching that state of financial independence.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;We got there, so can you&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
We followed an incredibly simple strategy to reach that point of financial independence:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Spend less than we earn.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Invest the rest, in tax-advantaged accounts when possible.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Reinvest dividends in&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;something&lt;/em&gt;, though not necessarily the dividend payer.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Repeat.&lt;/li&gt;
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The strategy was&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;simple&lt;/em&gt;, but it certainly wasn&#39;t&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;quick&lt;/em&gt;. Kids got sick. Cars broke down. The air conditioner, water heater, furnace, and other appliances needed to be replaced. Vacations were reduced to driving trips to visit out-of-town family. Entertainment came largely from the public library and neighborhood sports. And notice that I mentioned working&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;two&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;jobs...&lt;/div&gt;
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I followed that four-step strategy before my wife and I were married, and once she realized that it was her best shot of being able to stay home with the kids, she quickly converted. Yes, it took years of sacrifice and being extremely choosy in our spending. Still, having emerged intact on the side of financial independence, we can attest that the benefits, from peace of mind to improved work-life balance and family time, are certainly worth it.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;How we invest&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The centerpiece of our plan was consistent investing in a strategy that has its roots in Benjamin Graham&#39;s timeless classic,&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/The-Intelligent-Investor-Classic-Investing/dp/0060752610/-motleyfool-features/&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;The Intelligent Investor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The keys to that strategy are:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Dividends:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;We look for companies that pay dividends, have a history of raising their dividends, and look capable of continuing to raise their dividends over time.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Valuation:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;We look for companies that trade at what look like reasonable-to-cheap prices based on&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;some&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;fundamental measure of their worth. Since the financial crisis took out some of our weaker holdings, we began including balance sheet strength in that valuation consideration.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Diversification:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;We follow Graham&#39;s advice to look for companies that meet our other investing criteria and that operate in different industries. This absolutely saved us during the financial crisis, as many financial institutions looked good in the rearview mirror at the same time they were busy melting down. We lost more than I would have liked due to our holdings of financial companies, but far less than we would have were it not for Graham&#39;s diversification principles.&lt;/li&gt;
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As we worked through that strategy, we had some good years and some bad years, and we didn&#39;t consistently beat the market. But we were able to keep on plugging away, because we understood the strategy and believed from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/09/17/are-you-the-next-superinvestor.aspx&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Graham&#39;s experience and his followers&#39;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that it would work for us over time. And with every paycheck with money automatically sent to the 401(k), every IRA contribution, every reinvested dividend payment, and the occasional after-tax investment, we kept at it.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Why almost anyone can succeed&lt;/strong&gt;Perhaps the most important lesson we learned along the way is that you don&#39;t need to trounce the market to wind up comfortable. Indeed,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/09/18/even-lousy-investing-beats-not-investing.aspx&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;the act of investing is in many ways more important&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;than the returns you get from investing. You just need a reasonable strategy that you can consistently follow and the persistence, perseverance, and time to see it through.&lt;/div&gt;
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The strategy that got us to our Financial Independence Day may or may not work for you. But in honor of our nation&#39;s Independence Day this Fourth&amp;nbsp;of July, I encourage you to take the time to consider what your path to your Financial Independence Day might look like. Because the sooner you start, the better your chances are of reaching that goal, and the longer you&#39;ll be able to enjoy the fruits of your effort and sacrifice.&lt;/div&gt;
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Billionaire Warren Buffett dispensed plenty of advice on investing and life during this weekend&#39;s Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting.&lt;/div&gt;
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The wisdom Buffett and his investing partner Charlie Munger offer is part of what attracts more than 30,000 to the meetings each year.&lt;/div&gt;
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Here&#39;s a sample of their insights:&lt;/div&gt;
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INVESTING SUCCESS:&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett and Munger told shareholders that successful investors must learn all they can about the businesses they are buying and stick to industries they know, but the right temperament is also important.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;You just have to avoid getting excited when other people are excited,&quot; Buffett said.&lt;/div&gt;
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Admittedly, it&#39;s hard to continue to make rational decisions about investments when the stock market is soaring, but it has proven profitable for Berkshire Hathaway.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;We&#39;ve always tried to stay sane when other people like to go crazy,&quot; Munger said. &quot;That&#39;s a competitive advantage.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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DISADVANTAGES OF SIZE:&lt;/div&gt;
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Berkshire Hathaway&#39;s size and its $49 billion cash pile allow Buffett to do bigger deals than ever, like the recent deal to buy half of the H.J. Heinz Co. in a $23.3 billion transaction.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett reminded shareholders that size does have its disadvantages. He said it will continue to get harder to meet or exceed Berkshire&#39;s past returns.&lt;/div&gt;
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But Munger said he&#39;s confident the conglomerate will still perform well over the long term.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Of course our annual gains will slow down a bit, but it will still be very pleasant,&quot; Munger said.&lt;/div&gt;
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PASSION:&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett said he&#39;s just as passionate about investing and running Berkshire Hathaway as he was when he was younger.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;You have to love something to do well at it,&quot; he said after a questioner suggested he&#39;d lost some intensity at age 82.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett said hunting for acquisitions and thinking about Berkshire is what he enjoys.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;There&#39;s nothing more fun for me than finding something new to add to Berkshire,&quot; he said.&lt;/div&gt;
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FED FORTUNES&lt;/div&gt;
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The Federal Reserve&#39;s aggressive bond-buying program has helped stimulate the economy, but Buffett said it may be hard for the Fed to safely unload its $3.4 trillion investment portfolio.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;It&#39;s a lot easier to buy things than it is to sell them,&quot; Buffett said.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Fed has been buying $85 billion a month in Treasurys and mortgage bonds to try to keep long-term borrowing rates down and get the economy moving.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett said it&#39;s hard to predict what will happen when the Fed starts unloading bonds, but it&#39;s likely to be &quot;very inflationary.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;We really are in uncharted territory,&quot; Buffett said.&lt;/div&gt;
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BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY&#39;S FUTURE:&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett said he doesn&#39;t expect his successor to make any significant changes to Berkshire Hathaway after the 82-year-old investor is gone.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett faced several questions related to the future of the Berkshire conglomerate he built.&lt;/div&gt;
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Berkshire&#39;s next CEO may make some changes in how many of the more than 80 subsidiaries report to him directly, but he expects the company will remain extremely decentralized.&lt;/div&gt;
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And Buffett said he doubts it would make sense to split Berkshire into several different pieces.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Breaking it up into several companies, as far as I&#39;m concerned, would produce a poorer result,&quot; Buffett said.&lt;/div&gt;
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And even though Berkshire&#39;s next CEO won&#39;t have the Oracle of Omaha&#39;s reputation and connections, the company will still have a huge pile of cash to invest.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;In times of distress, few people have capital and even fewer are willing to commit,&quot; Buffett said.&lt;/div&gt;
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As usual, Munger cut straight to the heart of the issue.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;I want to say to the many Mungers in the audience, don&#39;t be so stupid to sell these shares,&quot; he said.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;That goes for the Buffett family too,&quot; Buffett said.&lt;/div&gt;
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Đây là cuốn sách về đầu tư cho các nhà đầu tư. Tác giả tập trung vào những nhân tố có ảnh hưởng quyết định nhất tới việc bạn sẽ kiếm được tiền hay đánh mất tiền, và liệu bạn có đánh bại được thị trường hay không.&lt;/h2&gt;
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Tác giả: Louann Lofton&lt;/div&gt;
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Năm xuất bản: 2012&lt;/div&gt;
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Nhà xuất bản: Lao động xã hội&lt;/div&gt;
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Bản quyền: Thaihabooks&lt;/div&gt;
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Về tác giả:&lt;/div&gt;
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Louann Lofton bắt đầu làm việc tại The Motley Fool từ năm 2000, với tư cách là một phóng viên, sau đó trở thành tổng biên tập phụ trách nội dung online.&lt;/div&gt;
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The Motley Fool là công ty dịch vụ tài chính đa phương tiện được thành lập từ năm 1993 tại Alexandria, bang Virginia, Mỹ. Với hàng triệu lượt người ủng hộ mỗi tháng thông qua website và các xuất bản phẩm cũng như dịch vụ cung cấp bản tin tài chính khác, công ty này ngày càng chứng tỏ được uy tín của mình với tất cả các nhà đầu tư trong và ngoài nước Mỹ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Nội dung chính:&lt;/div&gt;
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Khí chất quan trọng hơn bao giờ hết&lt;/div&gt;
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Sự hốt hoảng về mặt tài chính đã nhấn chìm thị trường chứng khoán, nhà đầu tư cá nhân và cả các chính phủ trên thế giới. Và hốt hoảng quả thực là từ hoàn hảo để miêu tả chuyện đã xảy ra vào mùa thu năm 2008.&lt;/div&gt;
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Vào ngày 6 tháng Mười năm 2008, chỉ số trung bình công nghiệp Down Jones lần đầu tiên giảm xuống dưới 10.000 điểm kể từ năm 2004. Ngày 9/10, chỉ số Standard &amp;amp; Poor 500 đã giãm 42% so với năm trước, nhanh chóng xóa sạch những thành quả đã phải mất cả năm xây dựng. Cột mốc này xảy ra trong vòng chưa tới bốn tuần ngắn ngủi và đau khổ sau khi Lehman Brothers phá sản.&lt;/div&gt;
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Đó là thời điểm thử thách thần kinh với tất cả những nhà đầu tư dày dạn nhất.&lt;/div&gt;
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Warren Buffett không hề hốt hoảng và bán tháo. Ông vẫn giữ dược sự bình tĩnh, và đánh giá được tình hình. Ông cũng khuyến khích những người khác làm đúng như vậy, và nhắc họ nhớ rằng chúng ta đang trải qua khó khăn trước, sau đó chúng ta mới có thể dẫn đầu. Ông cũng nhắc những nhà đầu tư nhớ rằng thời điểm tốt nhất để mua cổ phiếu chính là khi tất cả mọi người đều tháo chạy khỏi thị trường, để lại rất nhiều món hời cho người nào sẵn sàng nhận lấy.&lt;/div&gt;
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Đó là cách tư duy không dễ được chấp nhận trong quãng thời gian điên cuồng ấy.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett đã nói về tầm quan trọng của khí chất như thế này: “Đặc tính quan trọng nhất của nhà đầu tư là khí chất, chứ không phải trí tuệ… Bạn cần một “loại” khí chất không bắt nguồn từ cảm xúc do đồng tình hay bất đồng với đám đông”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ông còn nói thêm rằng: “Thành công trong đầu tư không có liên quan gì tới chỉ số IQ kể cả khi IQ của bạn ở trên mức 125. Khi bạn có chỉ số thông minh trung bình, điều bạn cần là khí chất để tránh đẩy người khác vào rắc rối trong đầu tư”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Kết quả đầu tư của chính bạn sẽ được cải thiện nếu bạn học cách kiểm soát cảm xúc của mình và có khí chất kiểu Buffett.&lt;/div&gt;
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Khoa học ẩn sau con gái&lt;/div&gt;
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Sau cuộc khủng hoảng và sự hoảng loạn năm 2008, vai trò và tầm ảnh hưởng của đấng mày râu trong nền kinh tế của chúng ta có vẻ đã bị thu hẹp lại rất nhiều so với phụ nữ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Những nhà nghiên cứu cũng tìm hiểu khác biệt giữa những nhà đầu tư chuyên nghiệp, cả nam và nữ, nhấn mạnh sự thật rằng những thay đổi trong khí chất này không chỉ giới hạn trong thế giới của cá nhân nhà đầu tư. Và một số những nghiên cứu thú vị nhất gần đây đã bắt đầu khám phá ra vai trò của hoóc-môn nam tính (testosterone) trong đầu tư, mạo hiểm và giao thương.&lt;/div&gt;
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Đàn ông thường cho rằng họ biết nhiều hơn những gì họ thực sự biết. Ngược lại, phụ nữ lại dễ dàng thừa nhận những gì họ không biết hơn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bởi quá tự tin nên đàn ông sẽ giao thương nhiều hơn phụ nữ. Và giao thương nhiều sẽ kéo tụt kết quả, gia tăng chi phí giao dịch và gần như là vật cản đối với những quyết định đầu tư thông minh.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bạn có thể là nhà phân tích thị trường chứng khoán giỏi nhất, nhưng nếu không có tư duy đúng đắn, bạn có thể bị nhấn chìm.&lt;/div&gt;
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Phụ nữ dễ “ngồi im” hơn đàn ông trong suốt những trò hề mạo hiểm của thị trường biến động, không động vào danh mục đầu tư của họ. Đàn ông thường có xu hướng hoảng loạn và bán tháo cổ phiếu của họ trong thời điểm sai lầm - khi chạm đáy. Hiển nhiên họ rơi vào thua lỗ nặng, và cũng dễ thất bại khi thị trường hồi phục. Sự tự tin thái quá của đàn ông khiến họ giao dịch khi họ không nên giao dịch, khi hành động tốt nhất là nên giữ vững lập trường, đứng im.&lt;/div&gt;
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Chân dung nhà đầu tư nữ&lt;/div&gt;
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Nhà đầu tư nữ thường:&lt;br /&gt;
1. Giao dịch ít hơn nam giới&lt;br /&gt;
2. Không thể hiện sự tự tin thái quá: Đàn ông nghĩ họ biết nhiều hơn những gì họ thực sự biết, trong khi phụ nữ lại có nhiều khả năng biết những điều mà họ cũng không biết là mình biết&lt;br /&gt;
3. Tránh nguy cơ giỏi hơn nhà đầu tư nam&lt;br /&gt;
4. Ít lạc quan hơn, do đó, thực tế hơn so với đồng nghiệp nam&lt;br /&gt;
5. Dành nhiều thời gian và nỗ lực hơn để nghiên cứu những khoản đầu tư có thể, cân nhắc mọi chi tiết và góc cạnh, đồng thời cân nhắc mọi quan điểm thay thế&lt;br /&gt;
6. Miễn dịch tốt hơn đối với áp lực xung quanh, và có xu hướng đưa ra quyết định tương tự bất chấp người đang dõi theo là ai&lt;br /&gt;
7. Học từ chính sai lầm của bản thân&lt;br /&gt;
8. Có ít hoóc-môn nam tính hơn nam giới, chính vì thế họ ít mạo hiểm hơn, điều này dẫn tới những cấu trúc thị trường kém khắc nghiệt hơn&lt;/div&gt;
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Tám đặc tính kể trên tạo nên một kiểu tư duy đầu tư mà tất cả những nhà đầu tư - nam cũng như nữ - đều nên học hỏi. Và tất cả chúng ta đều có thể - hoàn toàn có thể - học hỏi được.&lt;/div&gt;
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Chúng ta có thể đạt được những kết quả gần giống như kết quả tuyệt vời của các nhà đầu tư nữ - và của cả Warren Buffett - nếu chúng ta thực hiện đúng như vậy.&lt;/div&gt;
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“Thánh nhân”&lt;/div&gt;
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Warren Edward Buffett sinh ngày 30/8/1930, ở vùng quê Omaha, bang Nebraska. Với tất cả những gì chúng ta biết về con người ông sau này, chẳng có gì ngạc nhiên khi biết lúc nhỏ, Warren Buffet là một đứa trẻ sớm phát triển, có quan tâm đặc biệt và hứng thú với các con số, các chi tiết và với việc kiếm tiền. Buffett rất thông minh và nỗ lực, lần đầu đột phá vào thế giới thương mại là khi mới 6 tuổi, với việc bán kẹo cao su. Warren tiếp tục kiếm tiền bằng mọi cách mà một đứa trẻ có thể làm được, từ việc bán những chai sô-đa ở quanh khu vực mình ở, tới bán những quả bóng cho những người chơi ở sân gôn trong vùng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Khi Buffett 12 tuổi, cha cậu được bầu vào Quốc hội, buộc gia đình phải chuyển từ Omaha tới thủ đô Washington, D.C. Buffett không hứng thú với việc chuyển nhà, và gặp khó khăn trong việc kết bạn cũng như hòa nhập với ngôi trường mới. Tuy vậy, tình yêu kinh doanh và sự chăm chỉ của cậu đã được thưởng xứng đáng khi cậu bắt đầu công việc giao tờ báo mà cậu yêu thích, tờ Washington Post. Chính việc sớm được tiếp xúc với ngành công nghiệp báo chí này đã giúp Buffett phát triển tình yêu với những con chữ in, “thứ tình yêu” vẫn còn mãnh liệt cho tới tận ngày nay.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ở trường trung học, Buffett vẫn tiếp tục công việc giao báo, và bắt đầu những ngành kinh doanh phụ trợ nhờ số tiền kiếm được từ việc giao những tờ báo đó. Cậu đã mua một trang trại rộng 40ha ở Nebraska, cách Omaha khoảng một giờ đi đường, và cho một nông dân thuê trang trại đó, và người này phải chia lợi nhuận thu được cho cậu. (Hãy nhớ, chúng ta vẫn đang nói về anh chàng học sinh trung học phổ thông đấy nhé!)&lt;/div&gt;
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Lần đầu Buffett học về cổ phiếu và đầu tư là từ bố cậu, một chuyên gia môi giới chứng khoán ở Omaha trước khi trở thành một nghị sĩ. Cậu mua số cổ phiếu đầu tiên của mình ở tuổi 11, đầu tư cho Cities Service Preferred (Dịch vụ thành phố được yêu thích). Cậu mua ba cổ phiếu cho mình, và ba cổ phiếu cho chị gái Doris, với giá 38 USD/cổ phiếu.&lt;/div&gt;
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Thật không may là chỉ một thời gian ngắn sau đó, mã cổ phiếu này thất bại, tụt 29% xuống còn 27 USD/cổ phiếu. Buffett vẫn giữ, nhưng cậu bé 11 tuổi lại thấy lo sợ về việc cậu có thể đánh mất số tiền của chị gái. Tất nhiên cậu ghét việc tự mình làm mất tiền của mình, nhưng việc nghĩ mình có thể kéo cả chị gái ngã theo khiến cậu rất buồn phiền. Khi mã cổ phiếu của Cities Service tăng trở lại, tới giá 40 USD/cổ phiếu, Buffett đã bán, kiếm được 5 đô lợi nhuận cho cả hai chị em. Sau đó, giá cổ phiếu của Cities Service tăng mạnh, lên mức 200 đô/cổ phiếu. Đối với một thanh niên sau này là một bậc thầy, tai nạn này, và sự thiếu kiên nhẫn của cậu, không phải điều cậu có thể sớm quên.&lt;/div&gt;
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Sau khi hoàn thành chương trình cử nhân ở Đại học Nebraska, Buffett đã nhắm tới trường Kinh doanh Harvard. Tuy nhiên, tạo hóa trêu ngươi, Buffett đã bị trường Harvard từ chối. Cuối cùng, ông theo học trường Kinh doanh Cobumbia. Tại đây, Buffett đã gặp người sau này trở thành cố vấn, người có ảnh hưởng lớn nhất tới ông, người mà bản thân cũng là một bậc thầy về đầu tư giá trị - Benjamin Graham. Đây chính là nơi để Buffett trở thành « Huyền thoại Buffett ».&lt;/div&gt;
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Khi trở lại quê, Buffett vào làm cho công ty môi giới chứng khoán của bố. Ở đây, cũng như tất cả nhân viên môi giới chứng khoán khác, Buffett cũng phải chạy đông chạy tây, gọi điện thoại cho mọi người và thuyết phục họ mua cổ phiếu. Công việc thiên về marketing nhiều hơn là nghiên cứu và phân tích thực sự. Buffett đã thành công với tất cả những người mà ông quen biết. Nhưng ngoài nhóm người đã biết ông từ trước đó, ông gặp rất nhiều khó khăn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Vài năm sau, Buffett chuyến tới New York, làm việc tại Graham-Newman, phân tích các công ty và gợi ý những công ty bị đánh giá thấp để đầu tư. Điều này phù hợp với điểm mạnh và bản chất ham học hỏi của Buffett, giúp ông tỏa sáng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Khi Graham nghỉ hưu, Buffett cũng quyết định đi khỏi Graham-Newman, về lại Omaha, thành lập Công ty Buffet Associates với 7 thành viên, vốn góp ban đầu của ông là 100.000 đô la cộng với 105.000 đô la từ sáu thành viên còn lại,&lt;/div&gt;
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Với những khoản lợi nhuận khổng lồ, và với cách cơ cấu phí theo kiểu đối tác chỉ phải trả phí cho Buffett khi ông đam lẹi tiền cho họ thì việc mọi người ở khắp nơi bàn tán về điều đặc biệt đang xảy ra ở Omaha chỉ là vấn đề thời gian.&lt;/div&gt;
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Vào thời điểm đóng cửa công ty năm 1969, các đối tác của Buffett đã thu được 32% lợi nhuận trung bình hàng năm trước các khoản phí. Đó là điều chưa ai từng nghe nói, cả khi đó và cả bây giờ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Năm 1962, Buffett bắt đầu gom cổ phiếu chi phối của một công ty may mặc nhỏ của nước Anh – Berkshire Hathaway, công ty mà theo ông là đã bị đánh giá thấp. Ông tin rằng có thể mua cổ phiếu với giá rẻ, sau đó bán số cổ phiếu đó lại cho chính công ty đó với giá cao hơn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Từ năm 1965 tới năm 2010, lợi nhuận góp hàng năm tính trên một cổ phần theo giá trị sổ sách của Hathaway đạt mức ấn tượng 20,2%, so với con số tổng lợi tức khiêm tốn của S&amp;amp;P 9,4%, bao gồm cả cổ tức.&lt;/div&gt;
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Giao dịch ít, kiếm nhiều&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett thật sự là ông vua của lối suy nghĩ mua và giữ, “giao dịch ít”. Ông cực lực phản đối chuyện giao dịch ngắn hạn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffet nhấn mạnh, khi bạn mua một cổ phiếu, không phải là bạn đang mua mấy cái mã điện tử, mà là bạn đang mua một phần của một công ty đang sống, đang thở.&lt;/div&gt;
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Hình ảnh những nhà giao dịch phố Wall quát tháo, mua bán tấp nập, nhảy từ cổ phiếu này sang cổ phiếu khác trong đầu chúng ta hoàn toàn đối lập với hình ảnh người đàn ông có tên gọi Warren Buffett – tính toán, thận trọng, chi li và kiên nhẫn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett cũng thích khuyến khích các nhà đầu tư xem quyết định đầu tư của mình như một tờ phiếu đục lỗ có chứa « 20 lỗ » dùng trong cả đời. « Với mỗi một quyết định đầu tư, tờ phiếu đó sẽ được đục một lỗ, và như vậy, phần đời còn lại của ông ta sẽ bớt đi một cơ hội ». Buffett nói thêm : « Bạn không bao giờ sử dụng hết 20 lỗ đó nếu bạn chỉ dành chúng cho những ý tưởng tuyệt vời ».&lt;/div&gt;
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Sự kiên nhẫn của Buffett cũng là một đặc tính quan trọng khác làm nên phong cách và khí chất đầu tư của ông. Ông sẵn sàng chờ, ngồi trên cả núi tiền, chờ cho tới khi tìm thấy cơ hội hoàn hảo để đầu tư. Điều này đồng nghĩa với việc có thể phải kéo dài giai đoạn khó chịu là ngồi đợi thị trường leo lên đỉnh cao mới.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bạn phải có sức chịu đựng ngoan cường để làm được điều đó.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett đã kiên nhẫn để khoản tiền mặt khoảng 44 tỷ đô la nằm im trong bảng cân đối kế toán của Berkshire từ 2004 đến 2007. Cuối cùng, ông đã tìm thấy « lời mời chào béo bở » khi thị trường tụt dốc vào mùa thu 2008 trong cuộc khủng hoảng tài chính. Ông đã dùng 20 tỷ đô la chộp lấy các mảnh của General Electric và Goldman Sachs.&lt;/div&gt;
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Một trong những câu nói nổi tiếng và bất hủ của ông vẫn thường được trích dẫn là : « Hãy tham lam khi người khác sợ hãy, và hãy sợ hãi khi người khác tham lam ».&lt;/div&gt;
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Trở thành một nhà đầu tư thành công không phải dễ. Nó đòi hỏi sự chịu đựng ngoan cường, sức mạnh, sự chuẩn bị và sẵn sàng tránh hành động chỉ vì “cần phải làm gì đó”. Để đạt được điều đó, hãy ghi nhớ những điều này:&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy nhớ bạn đang mua một phần của một doanh nghiệp thực sự.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy nhìn xa trông rộng.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy kiên nhẫn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Kiểm soát sự tự tin thái quá&lt;/div&gt;
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Cùng với triết lý lâu dài chắc chắn, sự nhất quán, kiên định trong vòng tròn năng lực – hay biết là mình biết gì và biết mình không biết gì – là một đặc tính nổi tiếng khác làm nên con người Buffett. Đối với Buffett, việc biết bạn đang đầu tư vào cái gì là điều rất quan trọng.&lt;br /&gt;
Đầu tư vào các công ty mà bạn hiểu là điều rất quan trọng, vì thế hãy nhớ:&lt;br /&gt;
• Phạm vi hiểu biết của Buffett có thể khác với của bạn.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy nghĩ và học điều nằm trong độ bao phủ của vòng tròn năng lực của bạn.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy kiên định, bất kể thế nào đi chăng nữa.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tránh rủi ro&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett tin rằng kiểu đầu tư lâu dài trong vòng tròn năng lực sẽ đem lại sự giàu có thịnh vượng cho những nhà đầu tư thông minh. Quan điểm này được bổ sung bởi bản tính chống lại nguy cơ của ông. Buffett cho rằng tránh càng xa đầu cơ càng tốt, và nên hướng tới kiểu đầu tư mình-là-chủ-sở-hữu.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tính toán giá trị thực của một công ty là điều cần phải làm trước khi bắt đầu suy nghĩ tới việc có hay không một biên an toàn khả dĩ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Có thể tìm thấy một cách tránh rủi ro khác của Buffett trong thái độ của ông về nợ nần. Vấn đề của nợ nằm ở chỗ nếu sử dụng thái quá, nó có thể trở thành thảm họa khi thời gian trả nợ gần kề. Buffett thích giữ cho Berkshire dư dả tiền mặt nhất có thể.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett còn hạn chế rủi ro bằng cách ở trong cái gọi là “phạm vi hiểu biết” của mình. Bằng cách trung thành với điều mình biết, Buffett đã giảm bớt rủi ro của việc đưa ra một quyết định tồi dựa trên những hiểu biết và giả định sai lầm.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett quản lý rủi ro nhiều hơn bằng cách chủ yếu đầu tư vào các công ty có trụ sở ở Mỹ thay vì mua cổ phiếu của các công ty nước ngoài.&lt;/div&gt;
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Sự đầu tư nào cũng tiềm ẩn nguy cơ. Tuy nhiên, không cần phải mạo hiểm nhiều hơn mức cần thiết. Hãy đi theo sự chỉ dẫn của Buffett:&lt;br /&gt;
• Đeo đuổi một hệ số an toàn thích hợp.&lt;br /&gt;
• Tránh càng xa nợ càng tốt.&lt;br /&gt;
• Ở trong vòng tròn năng lực của bạn.&lt;br /&gt;
• Nghiên cứu trước khi đầu tư ở nước ngoài.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tập trung vào mặt tích cực của sự bi quan&lt;/div&gt;
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Chẳng nghi ngờ gì về việc Buffett là một người lạc quan bẩm sinh, nhưng ông lại rất thông thái trong việc nhận ra và tận dụng sự thật là những thời điểm bi quan có thể tạo ra những hoàn cảnh đem lại sự giàu có cho nhà đầu tư về lâu dài.&lt;/div&gt;
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Cố vấn của Buffett - Ben Graham đã viết về một nhân vật hư cấu có tên là “Ông Thị Trường” (Mr. Market): Nếu bạn nói không với ông ta một ngày thì không thành vấn đề - ông ta sẽ trở lại vào ngày hôm sau với một lời đề nghị khác. Buffett thích cách so sánh này, và đã nhắc nhở các nhà đầu tư rằng họ phải chịu trách nhiệm về Ông Thị Trường – chứ không phải ngược lại. Bạn không nên bị ảnh hưởng tâm lý quá nhiều trước những động thái đỏng đảnh của ông ta.&lt;/div&gt;
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Thái độ này cũng chính là điều đã giúp Buffett tránh được các giai đoạn quá khích và cuồng loạn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Để đảm bảo bạn không bị vướng vào chủ nghĩa bi quan không cần thiết, hãy nhớ:&lt;br /&gt;
• Bình tĩnh, điềm đạm về các khoản đầu tư của bạn nói riêng và về thị trường nói chung. Hãy học cách không quá khích trước các dao động hoặc không gục ngã trước sự sụt giảm của thị trường.&lt;br /&gt;
• Bạn chịu trách nhiệm về “Ông Thị Trường”. Đừng để ông ta bắt thóp bạn.&lt;br /&gt;
• Trích lời Buffett: “Khi đầu tư, bi quan là bạn, khoan khoái là thù”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Nghiên cứu bao quát&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett tin, và bạn cũng nên tin, rằng bạn nên dành nhiều thời gian để nghiên cứu trước khi mua cổ phiếu của một công ty nào đó. Chỉ biết mã chứng khoán niêm yết thôi là chưa đủ; bạn cần hiểu được công ty đó làm gì, kiếm tiền ra sao và ai là người điều hành công ty đó. Việc khảo sát này là phương cách hữu hiệu để xác định bạn đang xem xét một công ty có lợi thế cạnh tranh lâu dài và có đường hào kinh tế vững chãi, hay lại chỉ là một công ty nay-còn-mai-mất. Bạn không thể biết được tất cả những điều đó nếu bạn không nghiên cứu.&lt;/div&gt;
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Chúng ta có thông tin dễ dàng hơn nhiều so với Buffett ngày xưa khi ông bắt đầu đọc và nghiên cứu về các công ty. Nhờ có Internet, khả năng tiếp cận nhanh chóng, miễn phí đối với các thông tin tài chính của chúng ta ngày nay gần như là không giới hạn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett phải trực tiếp tới Ủy ban Giao dịch chứng khoán để xem hồ sơ của các công ty. Ông nói “Đó là cách duy nhất để có được những thông tin đó”. Ông phải ra mặt và yêu cầu các tài liệu mà ông muốn về các công ty cụ thể từ thư viện của những công ty đó, và phải ngồi xuống, lần lượt đọc từng tí, từng tí một, và tự mình ghi chép. Ông bắt đầu thói quen này từ khi còn theo học trường kinh doanh Columbia, học hỏi từ thầy Ben Graham cách đào xới những khoản đầu tư tiềm năng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Để tận dụng tối đa khoảng thời gian bạn dành cho việc nghiên cứu (điều thực sự cần thiết để trở thành một nhà đầu tư vĩ đại), hãy:&lt;/div&gt;
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• Đọc, đọc và đọc.&lt;br /&gt;
• Đừng quên vòng tròn năng lực của bạn.&lt;br /&gt;
• Tránh thiên kiến xác nhận, hãy chủ động tìm kiếm thông tin ngược với kết luận của bạn, chứ đừng tìm kiếm những thông tin củng cố cho chúng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Phớt lờ áp lực xung quanh&lt;/div&gt;
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Có thể sẽ rất sợ hãi khi đi ngược lại những gì mà những nhà đầu tư khác đang làm. Để làm một người đi ngược trào lưu là rất khó. Kiên định với phân tích và niềm tin của bạn là điều tối quan trọng. Nếu không, bạn có thể sẽ từ bỏ, đầu hàng và giao phó bản thân cho một tương lai theo sau người khác, đầu tư vào điều mà tất cả mọi người đều đang đầu tư, làm những điều mà họ làm.&lt;/div&gt;
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Việc phát triển khả năng kiểm soát cảm xúc đòi hỏi thời gian và công sức.&lt;/div&gt;
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Chỉ tính riêng năm 1999, chỉ số bình quân công nghiệp Down Jones tăng 25% trong khi chỉ số Nasdaq cho khối ngành công nghệ nặng tăng vụt lên 86%. Tuy nhiên Buffett vẫn ngồi im bên lề, tin chắc rằng sự gia tăng của thị trường chẳng được hình thành dựa trên thứ gì khác ngoài những con kỳ lân, những cầu vồng sặc sõ. Ông đã không hề mua cổ phần của các công ty mạng cho Berkshire. Buffett phải hứng chịu những nghi ngờ về khả năng đầu tư cũng như phương pháp đầu tư ông áp dụng trong suốt giai đoạn này. Giá cổ phiếu của Berkshire cũng bị ảnh hưởng, khiến cho giới truyền thông càng có thêm lý do để khẳng định những ngày tươi đẹp nhất của Buffett đã lùi xa.&lt;/div&gt;
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Mặc dù bị hiểu lầm, bị nhạo báng, nhưng Buffett vẫn đứng vững. Ông nói: “bạn không thể làm tốt trong đầu tư nếu không suy nghĩ một cách độc lập. Và sự thật là bạn không đúng cũng không sai chỉ vì mọi người đồng tình với bạn. Bạn chỉ đúng vì con số và lập luận của bạn đúng. Đến cuối cùng, đó mới là điều quan trọng”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett tin vào điều mà ông gọi là “thẻ điểm nội tâm” (inner scorecard). Về cơ bản, đó là một bộ khung để bạn sống đúng với những nguyên tắc và niềm tin của mình, và không hành động dựa vào việc người khác có đồng tình với bạn hay không.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bạn có thể học hỏi từ những bậc thầy, giống như Buffett đã, nhưng cuối cùng bạn vẫn cần phải phát triển hệ thống đầu tư của riêng bạn. Và bạn phải kiên định theo đuổi nó.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett có khoảng thời gian dài để hoàn thiện phần này trong khí chất của ông, và nó là phần quan trọng tạo nên thành công của ông. Hãy ghi nhớ những điều sau khi bạn bắt đầu cuộc hành trình của mình:&lt;/div&gt;
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• Sẵn sàng làm người đi ngược với mọi người, bất kể việc đó có khó chịu tới đâu.&lt;br /&gt;
• Thuộc lòng câu nói của Buffett: “Hãy tham lam khi người khác sợ hãi và hãy sợ hãi khi người khác tham lam”.&lt;br /&gt;
• Sống đúng với thẻ điểm nội tâm của bạn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Học từ sai lầm&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett là một huyền thoại, nhưng ông cũng không hoàn hảo. Ông cũng mắc sai lầm như tất cả chúng ta, và ông rất giỏi trong việc thừa nhận cũng như phân tích những sai lầm đó để rút ra điều gì có thể học hỏi được (thường theo cách rất hài hước và vô tư trong những bức thư gửi các cổ đông hàng năm). Ông có thể gạt cái tôi sang một bên để có cái nhìn lý trí điều gì đã sai.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett chia nhỏ sai lầm của mình thành sai lầm thực hiện, nghĩa là hành động ông đã thực hiện nhưng không đem lại kết quả như ông mong đợi, và sai lầm bỏ sót, hay hành động ông tiếc là đã không thực hiện. Tuy nhiên, Buffett đã từng nói rằng ông thấy buồn vì sai lầm bỏ sót hơn so với sai lầm do hành động của ông đem lại.&lt;/div&gt;
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Để tận dụng được tối đa những sai lầm của bản thân, và nỗ lực để những sai lầm đó không lặp lại, hãy nhớ:&lt;/div&gt;
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• Bạn sẽ mắc sai lầm. Tất cả chúng ta đều thế. Vậy nên đừng gục ngã khi bạn vấp ngã.&lt;br /&gt;
• Đánh giá điều đã xảy ra. Bạn có bỏ lỡ điều gì không? Hay điều kiện thị trường thay đổi?&lt;br /&gt;
• Nghĩ tới điều bạn có thể làm khác đi trong tương lai. Chẳng hạn, nếu bạn đã mua cổ phiếu của một công ty mà bạn không thực sự hiểu, hãy thề là sẽ không làm như thế nữa.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tiếp nhận ảnh hưởng phái nữ&lt;/div&gt;
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Việc thiếu testosterone thường khiến nữ giới ít sẵn sàng mạo hiểm hơn trong khi hành vi bầy đàn của nam giới do testosterone quy định lại có thể khiến thị trường cổ phiếu càng lao dốc mạnh hơn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Warren Buffett là một người đàn ông theo đúng nghĩa của nó. Tuy nhiên, sự thật là xung quanh ông có rất nhiều người phụ nữ mạnh mẽ, thông minh. Có lẽ, ảnh hưởng của những người phụ nữ này đã khiến phần tính nữ của ông tỏa sáng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Susan Buffett - người vợ đầu tiên của ông; nhà báo Carol Loomis; nhà vô địch bài brit Sharon Osberg; góa phụ Katharine Graham; nữ doanh nhân người Nga Rose Blumkin; Susan Jacques và Cathy Baron – hai lãnh đạo doanh nghiệp là công ty con của Berkshire Hathaway…&lt;/div&gt;
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Ảnh hưởng của tất cả những người phụ nữ này lên Buffett cũng đa dạng như vai trò của họ trong cuộc sống của ông. Ông đánh giá cao và trân trọng họ. Chúng ta không thể nói chắc chắn rằng Buffett không thể trở thành nhà đầu tư như ông ngày hôm nay nếu không quen biết và có mối quan hệ với những người phụ nữ đó, nhưng có thể chắc chắn rằng ông hạnh phúc hơn vì điều đó.&lt;/div&gt;
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Duy trì kết quả liên tục, nhất quán&lt;/div&gt;
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Warren Buffett đã đầu tư từ khi mới chỉ là một cậu nhóc 11 tuổi, và đã tự quản lý tiền của mình một cách chuyên nghiệp kể từ năm 1956 (khi mới chỉ 25 tuổi). Trong suốt những năm điều hành công ty Buffett (Buffett Partnesshio) từ 1956 đến 1969, ông đã tăng doanh thu trước các khoản phí trung bình hàng năm lên mức đáng ngạc nhiên là 32%. Điều đó có nghĩa là với mỗi 10.000 đô la, một nhà đầu tư may mắn và hoặc có khả năng tiên đoán đã đầu tư cùng với Buffett từ khi bắt đầu giai đoạn đó đã kiếm được 300.000 đô la khi ông đóng cửa công ty.&lt;/div&gt;
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Hãy ghi nhớ những việc sau khi nghĩ tới hiệu quả đầu tư:&lt;/div&gt;
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• Hãy phớt lờ bất cứ người nào nói với bạn rằng đọc báo cũng giống như phân tích thông minh.&lt;br /&gt;
• Phòng thủ tốt cũng giá trị như tấn công giỏi.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy theo đuổi hệ thống hiệu quả và logic, và bạn cũng có thể tạo ra một bảng doanh thu dài ấn tượng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Coi trọng con người và các mối quan hệ&lt;/div&gt;
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Khi Buffett mua một công ty nào đó cho Berkshire, không như những người khác, ông không nhảy ngay vào và bắt đầu thực thi những nguyên tắc mới, thay đổi ban quản lý, và khuyến tung rắc rối lên. Ông mua một công ty khi ông tin tưởng vào ban quản lý hiện hành, và tin vào cách thức vận hành hiện tại của công ty – nếu không, ông đã tìm cơ hội ở nơi khác.&lt;/div&gt;
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Sẽ dễ dàng hơn để ngủ ngon mỗi đêm nếu bạn tin tưởng những người bạn làm việc cùng. Với Buffett, chỉ đơn giản là con người mới là điều quan trọng.&lt;/div&gt;
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Coi trọng và nuôi dưỡng các mối quan hệ với người khác là điều Buffett coi là sống còn đối với việc kinh doanh hiệu quả.&lt;/div&gt;
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Theo GS. Prem Jain của Trường đại học Kinh doanh McDonough ở Georgetown – tác giả cuốn sách “Buffett – Trên cả giá trị: Tại sao Buffett lại quan tâm tới tăng trưởng và quản lý khi đầu tư?”, đánh giá ban quản lý của một công ty hay đánh giá một CEO không phải việc dễ dàng, vì những phẩm chất cá nhân khác nhau có thể tạo ra thành công trong những hoàn cảnh khác nhau, nhưng bạn cần phải hỏi hai câu hỏi cơ bản: Thứ nhất, ban quản lý và vị CEO hiện tại có năng lực không? Thứ hai, những động lực quản lý có đồng nhất với lợi ích của cổ đông không? Để trả lời câu hỏi đầu tiên, cần xem xét tình hình hoạt động của công ty trong vài năm. Để trả lời câu hỏi thứ hai, cần kiểm tra số cổ phiếu mà CEO và những người quản lý hàng đầu công ty nắm giữ. Buffet nghi ngờ những CEO được thưởng một lượng quyền chọn lớn nhưng chỉ nắm giữ một lượng rất nhỏ cổ phiếu. Ngoài ra, ông cũng thích những CEO gắn bó lâu dài với công ty hơn, và thăng tiến từ chính nội bộ công ty.&lt;/div&gt;
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Trong sự nghiệp đầu tư của mình, bạn hãy ghi nhớ những điều sau:&lt;br /&gt;
• Một doanh nghiệp không bao giờ mạnh hơn được người điều hành doanh nghiệp đó.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy đọc về ban quản lý của những công ty bạn có ý định đầu tư vào. Hãy tìm những quản lý cấp cao thông minh, cởi mở, trung thành và công bằng mà bạn có thể ngưỡng mộ.&lt;br /&gt;
• Đừng sợ đặt con người lên trên lợi nhuận; Buffett có sợ đâu.&lt;/div&gt;
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Hãy hỏi những bậc thầy&lt;/div&gt;
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Không phải ai cũng có may mắn được học với một bậc thầy đã được công nhận, nhưng Warren Buffet đã có được may mắn đó, khi được gần gũi với Ben Graham và David Dodd – hai tác giả của cuốn sách viết về đầu tư giá trị. Từ Graham, Buffett đã xây dựng được triết lý đầu tư cốt lõi của mình: Luôn mua với biên an toàn.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tuy nhiên, Buffett cũng rất khác Graham. Graham sở hữu rất nhiều công ty, trong khi Buffett lại cho rằng chỉ nên tập trung vào một số công ty. Ông cho rằng việc sở hữu nhiều cổ phiếu là dấu hiệu chứng tỏ bạn không thực sự hiểu mình đang làm gì, trong khi Graham lại cho rằng điều đó giúp giảm thiểu rủi ro.&lt;/div&gt;
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Vụ đầu tư của Buffett vào GEICO khi vừa tốt nghiệp đại học, và sau đó là trực tiếp đến trụ sở của Công ty ở D.C là ví dụ cụ thể cho sự khác biệt giữa Graham và Buffett về vấn đề đa dạng hóa. Trong khi Graham sở hữu một lượng nhỏ cổ phiếu của nhiều công ty, Buffett lại là người đặc biệt tin tưởng vào GEICO, tới mức đã rót ¾ số tiền trong danh mục đầu tư của mình vào công ty này.&lt;/div&gt;
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Vì thế, dù học hỏi từ những người đi trước là điều vô cùng quan trọng, bạn cũng đừng ngần ngại hỏi xem cách hành động của họ có phải là cách tốt nhất có thể không. Hãy nhớ rằng:&lt;br /&gt;
• Học là quá trình không ngừng nghỉ, vì thế, ngay cả sau khi bạn nghĩ mình đã tìm ra được cách tốt nhất để đầu tư, hãy cứ tiếp tục học.&lt;br /&gt;
• Một bậc thầy đầu tư nổi tiếng không có nghĩa là không có cách nào tốt hơn cách của họ.&lt;br /&gt;
• Bạn sẽ không bị kết tội là báng bổ khi nghi ngờ bất kỳ ai, kể cả Warren Buffett.&lt;/div&gt;
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Hành động công bằng và có đạo đức&lt;/div&gt;
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Nguyên tắc của Buffet về điều cần tìm kiếm khi đánh giá chất lượng quản lý là tìm kiếm người công bằng và có đạo đức. Gần như mặc định, Buffet luôn tự mình hành xử theo cách đó.&lt;/div&gt;
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Một cách đặc biệt mà Buffet dùng để thể hiện ý tưởng về sự công bằng là ông tin rằng mọi cổ đông, bất kể cổ phần của người đó lớn hay nhỏ, đều xứng đáng được cập nhật thông tin về công ty vào cùng một thời điểm và theo cùng một cách như nhau. Điều này dường như là nguyên lý hiển nhiên, chứ không phải đặc biệt của riêng Buffett, nhưng trên thực tế, mọi việc ở phố Wall lại không phải lúc nào cũng diễn ra như vậy. Nhiều công ty nhiều năm liền chỉ dành quyền ưu tiên cho các cổ đông lớn, cho các cổ đông là các thể chế, hay cho những nhà phân tích theo sát công ty của họ, và đóng sập cánh cửa trước những nhà đầu tư cá nhân nhỏ lẻ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Ngoài việc đảm bảo mọi người đều được nhận cùng một thông tin cùng một lúc, Buffett còn nỗ lực hết mình để cung cấp cho các cổ đông của mình càng nhiều thông tin càng tốt về cách thức Bershire hoạt động, đúng như những gì ông muốn nếu ông ở vào địa vị của họ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Warren Buffet thể hiện suy nghĩ của bản thân về tầm quan trọng của đạo đức trong kinh doanh thế này: “Sau khi nhân viên tuân thủ mọi nguyên tắc, tôi muốn họ tự hỏi bản thân xem họ sẽ như thế nào nếu ngày hôm sau họ thấy mình trên trang nhất của tờ báo địa phương, và rồi bạn đời, con cái và bạn bè họ đều đọc được bài viết của một phóng viên có tiếng về những hành động, toan tính của họ. Nếu làm theo bài trắc nghiệm này, họ sẽ không phải sợ một thông điệp khác tôi gửi đến họ: Làm mất tiền của công ty thì tôi có thể hiểu, thông cảm. Nhưng làm mất danh tiếng của công ty, dù chỉ là một chút, tôi cũng sẽ không nương tay”.&lt;/div&gt;
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Làm điều đúng đắn cho người khác, công bằng và có thái độ để tất cả mọi người đều thắng là cách tuyệt vời để tiếp cận đầu tư. Vì thế, hãy nhớ:&lt;/div&gt;
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• Bạn có thể vừa là người tốt vừa là người giàu; tốt và giàu không hề triệt tiêu lẫn nhau.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hoàn toàn có thể tìm thấy những công ty mà nhân viên, cổ đông và khách hàng đều giành chiến thắng, và những công ty có thể đem lại những thương vụ đầu tư thắng lợi.&lt;br /&gt;
• Hãy tìm kiếm các công ty có hoạt động truyền thống cởi mở, trung thực. Là một người chủ sở hữu, bạn xứng đáng được đối xử như thế.&lt;/div&gt;
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Nguyên tắc đầu tư cho người mới bắt đầu&lt;/div&gt;
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Cùng thống kê lại 8 đặc tính của các nhà đầu tư nữ:&lt;br /&gt;
1. Giao dịch ít.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Không thể hiện sự tự tin thái quá.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Cẩn trọng.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Ít lạc quan.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Dành nhiều thời gian và nỗ lực để nghiên cứu những khoản đầu tư có thể, cân nhắc mọi chi tiết và khía cạnh, đồng thời cân nhắc mọi quan điểm thay thế.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Miễn dịch với áp lực xung quanh.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Học từ chính sai lầm của bản thân.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Ít mạo hiểm.&lt;/div&gt;
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Và 3 “nguyên tắc Buffet”:&lt;br /&gt;
1. Coi trọng và nuôi dưỡng quan hệ với mọi người.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Hãy học từ những bậc thầy, nhưng cũng đừng ngần ngại nghi ngờ họ.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Hãy công bằng và hoạt động một cách có đạo đức.&lt;/div&gt;
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Như vậy, chúng ta đã mổ xẻ những đặc tính và khí chất làm nên nhà đầu tư Buffet, và chúng ta đã khám phá ra những đặc tính đầu tư mà những nhà đầu tư nữ thường có (và sử dụng để vượt trội hơn những nhà đầu tư nam giới).&lt;/div&gt;
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Cuối cùng, một lời khuyên dành cho tất cả những nhà đầu tư: chúng ta, cả nam giới và nữ giới, hãy coi đây là cơ hội để học hỏi lẫn nhau.&lt;/div&gt;
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Đối với phụ nữ, bạn có thể học hỏi từ nam giới cách hành động thay vì chờ đợi để bắt đầu. Phụ nữ không chỉ bắt đầu muộn hơn mà còn kiếm được ít hơn. Đàn ông thường sẵn sàng vào cuộc hơn phụ nữ, và chúng ta cần thay đổi điều đó.&lt;/div&gt;
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Nam giới hãy biết, nhân tố quan trọng nhất để đạt được thành công trong đầu tư dài hạn là có khí chất thích hợp. Và đàn ông, trong khi có xu hướng dễ hành động hơn, lại thường hành động quá nhiều, và rất có thể phá hoại cơ hội của mình. Vì vậy, hãy bớt mạo hiểm, hãy giảm bớt sự tự tin thái quá!&lt;/div&gt;
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Suy cho cùng, thực tế, Buffett không phải là một phụ nữ, nhưng ông lại đầu tư như một người phụ nữ và bạn cũng có thiên hướng bẩm sinh để theo bước ông.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Business Tenets = basic characteristics of the business itself&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;1. Is the business simple and understandable?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Understand the revenues, expenses, cash flow, labor relations, pricing flexibility, and capital allocation needs of every single one of your holdings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Investment success is not a matter of how much you know but how realistically you define what you don’t know.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;2. Does the business have a consistent operating history?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- A steady track record is a relatively reliable indicator. When a company has demonstrated consistent results with the same type of products year after year, it is not unreasonable to assume that those results will continue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Avoid purchasing companies that are fundamentally changing direction because their previous plans were unsuccessful. Undergoing major business changes increases the likelihood of committing major business errors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Avoid businesses that are solving difficult problems. Turnarounds seldom turn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;3. Does the business have favorable long-term prospects?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- A franchise as a company whose product or service 1) is needed or desired, 2) has no close substitute and 3) is not regulated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- A franchise that is the only source of a product people want can regularly increase prices without fear of losing market share or unit volume.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- A franchise has the ability to survive economic mishaps and still endure. A great company is one that will be great for 25 to 30 years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Management Tenets = important qualities that senior managers must display&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;4. Is management rational?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- The most important management act is allocation of the company’s capital.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Deciding what to do with the company’s earnings — reinvest in the business, or return money to shareholders — is an exercise in logic and rationality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- If the extra cash, reinvested internally, can produce an above-average return on equity — a return that is higher than the cost of capital — then the company should retain all its earnings and reinvest them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- A company that provides average or below-average investment returns but generates cash in excess of its needs should return the money to shareholders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Dividends put reinvestment risk in the hands of shareholders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Repurchases are preferred as shareholders are rewarded twice, first from the initial open market purchase and then from the positive effect of investor interest on price.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;5. Is management candid with its shareholders?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Likes managers who report their companies’ financial performance fully and genuinely, who admit mistakes as well as share successes, and who are in all ways candid with shareholders.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Data should be disclosed in a manner that helps the financially literate readers answer three key questions: 1) Approximately how much is this company worth? 2) what is the likelihood that it can meet its future obligations? and 3) how good a job are its managers doing, given the hand they have been dealt?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Managers who confess mistakes publicly are more likely to correct them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- The CEO who misleads others in public may eventually mislead himself in private.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;6. Does management resist the institutional imperative?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- The institutional imperative is the lemming-like tendency of corporate management to imitate the behavior of other managers, no matter how silly or irrational that behavior may be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Financial Tenets = critical financial decisions that the company must maintain&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;7. What is the return on equity?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Make adjustments to ROE. All marketable securities should be valued at cost and not at market value and excludes all capital gains and losses as well as any extraordinary items that may increase or decrease operating earnings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- A business should achieve good returns on equity while employing little or no debt.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;8. What are the company’s “owner earnings?&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- “Owner earnings” = a company’s net income plus depreciation, depletion and amortization, less the amount of capital expenditures and any additional working capital that might be needed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;9. What are the profit margins?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Managers of high-cost operations tend to find ways that continually add to overhead, whereas managers of low-cost operations are always finding ways to cut expenses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Relentless attack on unnecessary expenses, abhor having a bigger head count than is needed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;10. Has the company created at least one dollar of market value for every dollar retained?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Subtract all dividends from a company’s net income over the last ten years to get the total retained earnings figure. Add total retained earnings to the company’s market value at the beginning of the 10-en year period to get Total A. If the company has employed retained earnings effectively, the market value at the end of the 10-year period will exceed Total A.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Value Tenets = two interrelated guidelines about purchase price&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;11. What is the value of the company?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Value of a business is the total of the net cash flows (owner earnings) expected to occur over the life of the business, discounted by an appropriate interest rate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- If you are unable to project with confidence what the future cash flows of a business will be, don&#39;t attempt to value the company.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Discount rate used is the risk-free rate for long-term government bonds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Does not add a risk premium. Instead, relies on single-minded focus on companies with consistent and predictable earnings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;12. Can it be purchased at a significant discount to its value?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;- Margin of safety concept&lt;/span&gt;


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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;1. Nine out of 10 people in finance don&#39;t have your best interest at heart.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;Wall Street is a magnet for some of the nation&#39;s smartest students hailing from the best universities. And let me tell you: Few of them go into finance because they want to help the world allocate capital efficiently. They do it because they want to get rich.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;2. Don&#39;t try to predict the future.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A little more than a decade ago:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Greece was strong.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Russia was bankrupt.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Oil cost $13 a barrel.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;AOL&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;dominated the Internet.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Smart economists thought the government would pay off the national debt by 2009.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Apple&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;202686&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;(&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Nasdaq:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001&quot; href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/AAPL.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;AAPL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010&quot; href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=AAPL&amp;amp;source=iwlsitbut0000010&quot; style=&quot;background-image: url(http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;&quot; title=&quot;Add AAPL to My Watchlist&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was a joke.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;General Motors&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;203759&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;(&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;NYSE:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;qsAdd qs-source-isssitthv0000001&quot; href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/GM.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;GM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;addToWatchListIcon qsAdd qs-source-iwlsitbut0000010&quot; href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=GM&amp;amp;source=iwlsitbut0000010&quot; style=&quot;background-image: url(http://g.foolcdn.com/common/img/buttons/BtnAdd.gif); background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #339933; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 16px;&quot; title=&quot;Add GM to My Watchlist&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;was at an all-time high.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Mark Zuckerberg was in middle school.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Y2K was a major worry.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Fortune&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;named Enron one of America&#39;s &quot;most admired corporations.&quot;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;3. Saving can be more important than investing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This comes from a recent report by ConvergEx Group: &quot;Only 58% of us are even saving for retirement in the first place. Of that group, 60% have less than $25,000 put away.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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You can make a lifetime of smart, savvy investment moves, but if you haven&#39;t saved enough to begin with, you&#39;re not going to hit your goals. As the saying goes, &quot;Save a little bit of money each month, and at the end of the year, you&#39;ll be surprised at how little you still have.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;4. Tune out the majority of news.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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A 24-hour news cycle is built for people who can&#39;t see more than 24 hours ahead. That&#39;s why a long, slow, but very important rise in domestic energy production is rarely mentioned, but when the Dow falls 20 points, it is MUST-READ BREAKING NEWS.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Atlantic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;writer Derek Thompson recently wrote:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I&#39;ve written hundreds of articles about the economy in the last two years. But I think I can reduce those thousands of words to one sentence.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Things got better, slowly.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;5. Emotional intelligence is more important than classroom intelligence.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Take two investors.&lt;/div&gt;
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One is an MIT rocket scientist who aced his SATs and can recite pi out to 50 decimal places. He uses leverage and trades several times a week, tapping his intellect in attempt to outsmart the market by jumping in and out when he&#39;s determined it&#39;s right.&lt;/div&gt;
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The other is a country bumpkin who didn&#39;t attend college. He saves and invests every month in a low-cost index fund come hell or high water. He doesn&#39;t care about beating the market. He just wants it to be his faithful companion.&lt;/div&gt;
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Who&#39;s going to do better in the long run? I&#39;d bet on the latter all day long.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with a 130 IQ,&quot; Warren Buffett says. Successful investors are those who know their limitations, keep their heads cool, and act with discipline. You can&#39;t measure that.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;6. Talk about your money.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Investing isn&#39;t easy. It can get emotional. It can make you angry, nervous, scared, excited, and confused. Most of the time you make a decision under the fog of these emotions, you&#39;ll do something regrettable.&lt;/div&gt;
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So talk to someone before making a big money move. A friend. An advisor. A fellow investor. Just discuss what you&#39;re doing with other people. &quot;Everyone you meet has something to teach you,&quot; the saying goes. At worst, they give advice you don&#39;t agree with and can ignore. More often, they&#39;ll provide prospective and help shape your thinking.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;7. Most financial problems are caused by debt.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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I have a friend of a family friend who earned several hundred thousand dollars a year as a specialist in an advanced field. He declared bankruptcy in 2009 and will probably need to work well into his 70s. I know another who never earned more than $50,000 a year but retired comfortably on his own terms.&lt;/div&gt;
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The only substantive difference between the two is that one exploited debt to live beyond his means while the other avoided it and accepted a realistic standard of living. Income and wealth aren&#39;t as correlated as people think.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;8. Forget about past performance.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Whether it&#39;s a stock or mutual fund, one of the worst (but most common) ways to size up an investment&#39;s potential is by looking at past returns.&lt;/div&gt;
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A stock that&#39;s gone up a lot in recent years doesn&#39;t say anything about where it might go over the next few years. In fact, investments that have done exceptionally well in the recent past should be a red flag, as they have a higher likelihood of being overhyped and overvalued.&lt;/div&gt;
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You should buy stocks that:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;You understand.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Have a competitive advantage.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Sell for attractive valuations.&lt;/li&gt;
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Past performance should have nothing to do with the decision.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;9. The perfect investment doesn&#39;t exist.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Gold, often touted as the bastion of stability, fell nearly 70% from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Treasury bonds lost 40% of their inflation-adjusted value from the end of World War II through the early 1980s. Stocks, nearly unquestioned as the greatest investments in 2000, fell 40% by March 2009. And real estate ... well, you know.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;Investing is risky. Bad things happen eventually happen to&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;all&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;assets. Valuations get out of whack, industries change, managers screw up, politicians make terrible decisions, and things don&#39;t always work out as expected. Diversification is key. As are patience, an open mind, and an ability to ignore crowds and hype.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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It is created by Tim Sales and it illustrates this wonderful concept of how to be Wealthy. It is not really the amount of income that a person makes which decides if this person becomes Wealthy, but rather, what he/she does with the income that comes in.&lt;/div&gt;
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In summary,&lt;/div&gt;
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1) The poor buys “stuff”, things people buy and do not really know why they buy it for.&lt;/div&gt;
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2) The middle class buys “liabilities”, which are things that you will have to continue to finance out of your pocket once you buy it. E.g. are like cars, boats, houses, timeshare program, a the latest electronic gadget etc etc… which once you buy, you will have an increase in your monthly/ yearly expenses. That is why the middle class are the most ‘stressed-up’ people, having tonnes of expenses and bills to pay every month. These people have the highest monthly expenses. Please do note that these can potentially become “assets” as well… if you know how to turn them into assets.&lt;/div&gt;
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3) The wealthy buys Assets. Assets are things that put money in your pocket, as simple as that.&lt;/div&gt;
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Some very common assets known to most people will be fixed deposits, annuities and bonds.&lt;/div&gt;
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Once you buy these assets, money will be generated for you on a yearly/ monthly basis.&lt;/div&gt;
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Đối với nhiều nhà đầu tư, cảm giác hạnh phúc là một thứ thật mong manh và ngắn ngủi, thậm chí đối với một vài người nó còn trở nên quá xa vời kể từ khi họ dấn thân của con đường đầu tư.&lt;/div&gt;
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Thực ra, “hạnh phúc” và &quot;đầu tư&quot; không phải 2 khái niệm đối lập, nhưng chắc chắn việc dành cả đời để theo đuổi tiền bạc sẽ không đưa nhà đầu tư đến hạnh phúc.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bởi vậy, làm cách nào để hài hòa 2 yếu tố hạnh phúc và tiền bạc luôn là một trong những câu hỏi trăn trở nhất của các nhà đầu tư. Và dưới đây là 5 bí quyết giúp họ phần nào thỏa mãn được nhu cầu ấy.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow; font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bí quyết 1: Đừng lo lắng về những gì người khác nghĩ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Thông thường để trở nên tỉnh táo và sáng suốt trước các thông tin gây nhiễu, nhà đầu tư cần giữ cho mình một cái đầu lạnh trước những gì người khác nghĩ về mình, ngoại trừ điều đó sẽ tạo thêm động lực để làm điều ngược lại.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Tất nhiên, việc bỏ qua những gì người khác gán cho không phải điều dễ dàng, nhất là đối với những nhà đầu tư mới bước vào nghề. Tuy nhiên, nếu là 1 nhà đầu tư thông minh, việc đi ngược lại với đám đông sẽ giúp họ có thêm cơ hội để bứt phá.&lt;/div&gt;
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Tất cả mọi người đều muốn được lắng nghe và được tôn trọng, muốn có được phản hồi tích cực, và sự quý mến của những người xung quanh. Nhưng đó là sự hài lòng bên ngoài và nó sẽ rất dễ đưa nhà đầu tư đến trạng thái nghiện, cần nhiều hơn nữa, hơn nữa. Cảm giác nghiện đó sẽ giết chết linh cảm thực sự của 1 nhà đầu tư.&lt;/div&gt;
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Bởi vậy, không nên cố chứng minh điều gì với người khác mà thay vào đó hãy tập trung vào sự hài lòng nội bộ, điều khiển sự tự thỏa mãn bên trong con người và nuôi dưỡng thứ linh cảm tuyệt vời đó.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bí quyết 2: Hãy trung thực&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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Trong một bài viết nổi tiếng đăng trên tạp chí Harvard Business Review vào năm 2010 của giáo sư Clay Christensen có đặt ra một vấn đề: sự trung thực có vai trò thế nào trong việc tạo ra một không gian sống cho các nhà đầu tư.&lt;/div&gt;
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Trung thực trong công việc, trong cộng đồng, trung thực với gia đình và với danh mục đầu tư của chính mình không chỉ giúp cuộc sống của các nhà đầu tư dễ thở hơn, bớt căng thẳng hơn và tất nhiên quan trọng hơn nó sẽ giúp họ kiếm được nhiều tiền hơn, đặc biệt là trong dài hạn.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bí quyết 3: Không bao giờ hối hận vì quyết định mua&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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Việc mua một số cổ phiếu trong những tính toán sai lầm và cảm thấy cả thị trường đang chống lại mình là một trong những cảm giác quen thuộc của hầu hết cả nhà đầu tư.&lt;/div&gt;
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Nhưng lời khuyên của các chuyên gia là đừng bao giờ hối hận và tự trách mình, bởi điều đó sẽ chỉ khiến nhà đầu tư lún sâu thêm vào sai lầm. Thay vì vậy, hãy “liếm láp vết thương” và học hỏi từ những sai lầm đó.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bí quyết 4: Luôn ủng hộ bản thân&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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Không nên tự trách bản thân nếu không có đủ kiến thức trong một lĩnh vực rộng và sâu như đầu tư. Bởi vậy, nhà đầu tư nên biết cách sử dụng tiền để chọn một cố vấn tài chính hay môi giới để quản lý danh mục đầu tư trong trường hợp kiến thức của họ chưa được trang bị đầy đủ.&lt;/div&gt;
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Các cố vấn tài chính được trả lương để thuyết phục nhà đầu tư quản lý danh mục đầu tư một cách hiệu quả nhất, bởi vậy nhà đầu tư cần đặt lại thật nhiều câu hỏi trước khi chấp nhận lời khuyên của họ. Hãy nhớ rằng chỉ nên tin vào chính bản thân mình.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Bí quyết 5: Không bao giờ sợ hãi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
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Dấn thân vào nghề đầu tư là một sự lựa chọn không có lợi cho sức khỏe, bởi thị trường đem lại không chỉ sự lo lắng, sợ hãi, tức giận mà đôi khi cả những cảm giác ngọt ngào cũng có thể khiến nhà đầu tư bị ... đau dạ dày.&lt;/div&gt;
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Nhà đầu tư khôn ngoan nên tạo ra cho mình 1 tập hợp các nguyên tắc nhằm đưa cuộc sống vào khuôn khổ và tránh những tác động xấu của thị trường. Một trong những nguyên tắc quan trọng nhất là không để bản thân sợ hãi.&lt;/div&gt;
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Hãy nhớ, nỗi sợ hãi chính là điểm yếu nhất của nhà đầu tư và đồng thời nó đem lại lợi thế cho các nhà đầu tư khác.&lt;/div&gt;
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The following table outlines the level of cash on Berkshire&#39;s consolidated balance sheet compared to other assets:&lt;/div&gt;
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Quarter Ending 6/12 (in billions): Cash: $ 40.7; Long-term Investments: $135.4; Total Assets: $411.3&lt;/div&gt;
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Year Ending 12/11 (in billions): Cash: $ 37.2; Long-term Investments: $125.1; Total Assets: $392.6&lt;/div&gt;
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Year Ending 12/10 (in billions): Cash: $ 38.2; Long-term Investments: $117.4; Total Assets: $372.2&lt;/div&gt;
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Year Ending 12/09 (in billions): Cash: $ 30.5; Long-term Investments: $126.3; Total Assets: $297.1&lt;/div&gt;
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From the table above, the amount of cash compared to the company&#39;s investment portfolio (calculated as l-t investments + cash) fluctuated between &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;19% and 23%&lt;/span&gt;, while the amount of cash compared to total assets has maintained a 9% to 10% range.&lt;/div&gt;
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Where does Berkshire invest its cash? According to the 2011 Annual Report, cash equivalents consist of funds invested in U&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;.S. Treasury Bills, money market accounts, demand deposits and other investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Most investors use a plain vanilla money market fund to store cash. Prior to the financial meltdown of 2008, money market funds were considered a &quot;safe&quot; investment where $1.00 invested would be worth $1.00 in perpetuity. But, during the meltdown, a money market provider &quot;broke the buck&quot; and the NAV was worth less than $1.00, creating a loss of capital if investors were to sell. On Sept 17, 2008, the Primary Fund, one of the originators of the money market fund concept, announced a freeze on all distributions for up to 7-days as its NAV fell below $1.00 with the write-down of Lehman Bros debt assets to zero. The first case of a money market fund breaking the buck occurred in 1994, when Community Bankers U.S. Government Money Market Fund was liquidated at $0.94 cents because of large losses in derivatives.&lt;/div&gt;
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From the recent Globe and Mail article about Buffett&#39;s cash holdings (I highlighted the last paragraph as meaningful for those who use money or fund managers):&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;The option theory of cash is something Mr. Buffett does not tend to get into when he is up on stage at his annual investor meeting, dishing out his homespun take on life and investing. That&#39;s probably because Mr. Buffett views himself as a teacher, and he wants to reach a broad audience&quot;, Ms. Schroeder says.&lt;/div&gt;
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&quot;Generally speaking, he likes to keep concepts simple,&quot; Ms. Schroeder says. &quot;He says, &#39;I like to have all that cash around because you can use it.&#39;&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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However, it is a lesson that Ms. Schroeder said she wishes more people would learn. For many investors, there is a sense that holding cash is a cop-out. Investors who see their fund managers holding a lot of cash tend to think that they are not getting their money&#39;s worth, which is wrong, she says.&lt;/div&gt;
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The question remains: do you have more cash than Buffett as a percentage of assets? Using a Broad Asset Diversification Model, cash is given its rightful place next to the other asset classes for all portfolio analysis.&lt;/div&gt;
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While the percentage of cash should vary based on an individual&#39;s risk profile and investment goals, Berkshire holds sufficient cash to achieve the goal of being able to meaningfully capitalize on potential value-priced opportunities.&lt;/div&gt;
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1941: At eleven years old, Warren buys his first stock. He purchases 6 shares of Cities Service preferred stock [3 shares for himself, 3 for his sister, Doris], at a cost of $38 per share. The company falls to $27 but shortly climbs back to $40. Warren &amp;amp; Doris sell their stock. Almost immediately, it shoots up to over $200 per share.&lt;/div&gt;
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1943: Warren declares to a friend of the family that he will be a millionaire by the time he turns thirty, or &quot;[I&#39;ll] jump off the tallest building in Omaha.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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1945: Warren is making $175 monthly delivering Washington Post newspapers. At fourteen years old, he invests $1,200 of his savings into 40 acres of farmland.&lt;/div&gt;
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1947: In his senior year of high school, Warren and a friend purchase a used pinball machine at a cost of $25. Buffett begins to think about the potential profit, and places it in a nearby Barber Shop. Within months, he owns three machines in three different locations. The business is sold later in the year for $1,200 to a War Veteran.&lt;/div&gt;
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1947: Warren has earned over $5,000 delivering newspapers. His father presses him to attend college, a suggestion Warren does not take well. Nevertheless, that year, he enrolls as a freshman at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in Pennsylvania. Buffett hates it, complaining he knows more than the teachers.&lt;/div&gt;
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1949: Classmates return to find that Warren is no longer enrolled at Wharton. He has transferred to the University of Nebraska.&lt;/div&gt;
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1949: Warren is enrolled in classes, but has already begun his life. He is offered a job at J.C. Penny&#39;s after college, but turns it down. He graduates from college in only three years by taking his last three credits over the summer. His savings have reached $9,800.&lt;/div&gt;
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1950: Buffett applies for admission to Harvard Business School and is turned down. He eventually enrolls at Columbia after learning that Ben Graham and David Dodd, two well-known security analysts, are professors.&lt;/div&gt;
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1951: Warren discovers Graham is on the Board of GEICO insurance. He takes a train to Washington, D.C., and knocks on the door of its headquarters until a janitor lets him in. After asking if anyone is working, he find a man on the sixth floor, who ends up being high up in the company. They talk for hours while Warren questions him on the business and insurance in general. [Buffett now owns GEICO entirely].&lt;/div&gt;
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1951: Buffett graduates and wants to go to work on Wall Street. Both his father [Howard] and mentor [Graham] urge him not to. Warren offers to work for Ben Graham for free but Graham refuses.&lt;/div&gt;
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1951: Warren returns home and begins dating Susan Thompson.&lt;/div&gt;
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1951: Buffett purchases a Texaco station as a side investment. It doesn&#39;t work out as well as he hopes. Meanwhile, he is working as a stockbroker&lt;/div&gt;
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1951: Buffett takes a Dale Carnegie public speaking course. Using what he learnt, he began to teach a night class at the University of Nebraska, &quot;Investment Principles&quot;. The students were twice his age [he was only 21 at the time].&lt;/div&gt;
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April, 1952: Warren and Susie get married. They rent an apartment for $65 a month, and have their first child, also Susie.&lt;/div&gt;
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1954: Ben Graham calls Warren and offers him a job at his partnership. Buffett&#39;s starting salary is $12,000 a year.&lt;/div&gt;
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1956: Graham retires and folds up his partnership. Since leaving college six years earlier, Warren&#39;s personal savings have grown from $9,800 to over $140,000.&lt;/div&gt;
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1956: The Buffett family returns home to Omaha. On May 1, Warren created Buffett Associates, Ltd. Seven family members and friends put in a total of $105,000. Buffett himself invested only $100. He was now running his own partnership, and would never again work for anyone else. Over the course of the year, he opened two additional partnership, eventually bringing the number under his management to three. Years later, they would all be consolidated into one.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;ul style=&quot;font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1957: Buffett adds two more partnerships to his collection. He is now managing five investment partnerships from his home.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1957: With Susan about to have her third child, Warren purchases a five-bedroom, stucco house on Farnam street. It cost $31,500.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1958: The third year of the partnership completed, Buffett doubles the partner&#39;s money.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1959: Warren is introduced to Charlie Munger, who will eventually become the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, and an integral part of the company&#39;s success. The two get along immediately.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1960: Warren asks one of his partners, a doctor, to find ten other doctors who will be willing to invest $10,000 each into his partnership. Eventually, eleven doctors agreed to invest.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1961: With the partnerships now worth millions, Buffett made his first $1 million dollar investment in a windmill manufacturing company.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1962: Buffett returns to New York with Susie for a few weeks to raise capital from his old acquaintances. During the trip, he picks up a few partners and several hundred thousand dollars.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1962: The Buffett Partnership, which had begun with $105,000, was now worth $7.2 million. Warren and Susie personally own over $1 million of the assets. Buffett merges all of the partnerships into one entity known simply as Buffett Partnerships, Ltd. The operations are moved to Kiewit plaza, a functional but less-than-grand office, where they remain to this day. The minimum investment is raised from $25,000 to $100,000.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1962: Buffett consults Munger on Dempster, the windmill manufacturing company. Munger recommends Harry Bottle to Warren; a move that would turn out to be very profitable. Bottle cut costs, laid off workers, and caused the company to generate cash.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1962: Warren discovers a textile manufacturing firm, Berkshire Hathaway, that is selling for under $8 per share. He begins to buy the stock.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1963: Buffett sells Dempster for 3x the amount he invested [The almost worthless company had built a portfolio of stocks worth over $2 million alone during the time of Buffett&#39;s investment].&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1963: The Buffett partnerships becomes the largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1964: Due to a fraud scandal, American Express shares fall to $35. While the world is selling the stock, Buffett begins to buy shares en masse.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1965: Warren&#39;s father, Howard, dies.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1965: Buffett begins to purchase shares in Walt Disney Co. after meeting with Walt personally. Warren invested $4 million [which was equal to around 5% of the company].&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1965: The American Express shares which were purchased shortly before are selling for more than double the price Warren paid for the them.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1965: Buffett arranges a business coup - taking control of Berkshire Hathaway at the board meeting and naming a new President, Ken Chace, to run the company.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1966: Warren&#39;s personal investment in the partnership reaches $6,849,936.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1967: Berkshire pays out its first and only dividend of 10 cents.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1967: In October, Warren writes to his partners and tells them he finds no bargains in the roaring stock market of the &#39;60s. His partnership is now worth $65 million.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1967: Buffett is worth, personally, more than $10 million. He briefly considers leaving investing and pursuing other interests.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1967: American Express hits over $180 per share, making the partnership $20 million in profit on a $13 million investment.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1967: Berkshire Hathaway acquires National Indemnity insurance at Buffett&#39;s direction. It pays $8.6 million.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1968: The Buffett Partnership earns more than $40 million, bringing the total value to $104 million.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1969: Following his most successful year, Buffett closes the partnership and liquidates its assets to his partners. Among the assets paid out are shares of Berkshire Hathaway. Warren&#39;s personal stake now stands at $25 million. He is only 39 years old.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1970: The Buffett Partnership is now completely dissolved and divested of its assets. Warren now owns 29% of the stock outstanding in Berkshire Hathaway. He names himself chairman and begins writing the annual letter to shareholders.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1970: Berkshire makes $45,000 from textile operations, and $4.7 million in insurance, banking, and investments. Warren&#39;s side investments are making more than the actual company itself.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1971: Warren [at his wife&#39;s request], purchases a $150,000 summer home at Laguna Beach.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1973: Stock prices begin to drop; Warren is euphoric. At his direction, Berkshire issues notes at 8%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1973: Berkshire begins to acquire stock in the Washington Post Company.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1974: Due to falling stock prices, the value of Berkshire&#39;s stock portfolio began to fall. Warren&#39;s personal wealth was cut by over 50%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1974: The SEC opens a formal investigation into Warren Buffett and one of Berkshire&#39;s mergers. Nothing ever comes of it.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 16.363636016845703px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1977: Berkshire indirectly purchases the Buffalo Evening News for $32.5 million. He would later be brought up on antitrust charges by a competing paper.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1977: Susie leaves Warren, although not officially divorcing him. Warren is crushed.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1978: Susie introduces Warren to Astrid, who eventually moves in with him.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1979: Berkshire trades at $290 per share. Warren&#39;s personal fortune is approximately $140 million, but he was living solely on a salary of $50,000 per year.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1979: Berkshire begins to acquire stock in ABC.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1981: Munger and Buffett create the Berkshire Charitable Contribution plan, allowing each shareholder to donate some of the company&#39;s profits to his or her personal charities.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1983: Berkshire ends the year with $1.3 billion in its corporate stock portfolio.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1983: Berkshire begins the year at $775 per share, and ends at $1,310. Warren&#39;s personal net worth is $620 million. He makes the Forbes list for the first time.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1983: Buffett purchases Nebraska Furniture Mart for $60 million. It turns out to be one of his best investments yet.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1985: Buffett finally shuts down the Berkshire textile mills after years of sustaining it. He refuses to allow it to drain capital from shareholders.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1985: Warren helps orchestrate the merger between ABC and Cap Cities. He is forced to leave the Board of the Washington Post [Federal legislation prohibited him sitting on the Boards of both Capital Cities and Kay Graham&#39;s Washington Post.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1985: Buffett purchases Scott &amp;amp; Fetzer for Berkshire&#39;s collection of businesses. It costs around $315 million, and boasts such products as Kirby vacuums and the World Book Encyclopedia.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1986: Berkshire breaks $3,000 per share.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1987: In the immediate crash and aftermath of October, Berkshire loses 25% of its value, dropping from $4,230 per share to around $3,170. The day of the crash, Buffett loses $342 million personally.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1988: Buffett begins buying stock in Coca-Cola, eventually purchasing up to 7 percent of the company for $1.02 billion. It will turn out to be one of Berkshire&#39;s most lucrative investments.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style=&quot;font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;&quot;&gt;1989: Berkshire rises from $4,800 per share to over $8,000. Warren now has a personal fortune of $3.8 billion.&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;Peter Lynch put together one of the greatest investing track records of all time, while serving as the portfolio manager of Fidelity&#39;s Magellan Fund. An ordinary investor who put $1,000 in the fund on the day Lynch took over would have had roughly $28,000 by the time Lynch stepped down 13 years later.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;Despite those truly remarkable returns, Lynch was a passionate believer in the notion that the normal investor can pick stocks better than the average Wall Street professional. In fact, he argued that the retail investor had numerous advantages that might allow him or her to outperform both the experts and the market in general.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;Lynch did not say, however, that it would be&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;for retail investors to outperform. He believed they could do the job very well, but that they had to do certain things. Below are three simple lessons from Lynch that will assist ordinary investors in their quest to beat the market:&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;1. Do the work&lt;/strong&gt;. Peter Lynch is very well known, of course, for recommending that investors &quot;buy what they know.&quot; According to this principle, investors may want to invest in that busy restaurant on the corner that always seems crowded on Friday night.&lt;/div&gt;
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Perhaps less well-known about Lynch is that he expected investors to understand their businesses before putting their money in them. In his&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/One-Up-On-Wall-Street/dp/0743200403/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1347922492&amp;amp;sr=8-1&amp;amp;keywords=One+Up+On+Wall+Street&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit;&quot;&gt;classic book&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;One Up On Wall Street&lt;/em&gt;, he recommended that you should &quot;never invest in any company before you&#39;ve done the homework on the company&#39;s earnings prospects, financial condition, competitive position, plans for expansion, and so forth.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;2. Use your edge&lt;/strong&gt;. Lynch strongly believed that everyone has an edge that can allow them to&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/05/21/how-peter-lynch-destroyed-the-market.aspx&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;outperform the experts&lt;/a&gt;. The key is to utilize your edge by investing in companies or industries that you understand well.&lt;/div&gt;
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He recommended that individuals identify three to five companies that they could know very well. You could study them; lecture on them; and understand their stories intimately. Ultimately, Lynch felt that ordinary folks need to discover their personal edge, whether it&#39;s a profession or hobby or even something else, like being a parent.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;3. Be patient&lt;/strong&gt;. Being patient and investing for the long term should be the simplest investing lesson of all. Sadly, it&#39;s one of those things that is easier said than done. In 1960, the average holding period for a stock was eight years; nowadays, it&#39;s just four&amp;nbsp;&lt;em style=&quot;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;months&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Lynch often said that he had no idea what the market would do in one or two years. But he was confident about what stocks would do 10, 20, or 30 years from now. He truly believed that time was on the side of the retail investor, and that&#39;s why he was an enthusiastic proponent of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/08/24/10-reasons-why-you-should-buy-stocks.aspx?source=isesitlnk0000001&amp;amp;mrr=0.50&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px; color: #339933; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;long-term investing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;border: 0px; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;Simple is as simple does&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 14.399999618530273px;&quot;&gt;Peter Lynch once said, &quot;The simpler it is, the better I like it.&quot; In a world of faster trading and ever-increasing flows of information, keeping it simple might be the ultimate edge for the ordinary investor. Always remember, though, that simple doesn&#39;t necessarily mean easy. I know I have to work a lot harder on all three of those &quot;simple&quot; lessons mentioned above.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Làm ơn cho tôi biết tôi phải đi theo hướng nào?”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;“Cái đó còn tùy thuộc bạn muốn đi đâu nữa cơ,” chú mèo trả lời.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;“Tôi không cần biết nơi nào_” Alice nói.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;“Vậy thì bạn đi đường nào cũng có khác gì đâu,” chú Mèo trả lời.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;abbr style=&quot;background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #777777; font-family: Georgia, Times, &#39;Times New Roman&#39;, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 11.199999809265137px;&quot; title=&quot;2012-09-13T14:31:33Z&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: black; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 22.45333480834961px;&quot;&gt;Teaching your kids about money should start as early as possible. &quot;As soon as your child starts asking for things, I think it&#39;s time for them to understand that things cost money,&quot; says Anton Simunovic, founder of ThreeJars.com, a website dedicated to teaching kids about money management.&lt;/span&gt;
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Starting to feel a little less anxious? Here are six more ideas for making money fun for kids:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Use cash.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Showing kids purchases with a credit card won&#39;t do much good, the Gallos say. &quot;Don&#39;t [buy items] on credit cards or with checks, because that&#39;s completely abstract,&quot; says Eileen Gallo. &quot;Let your kids hold the money and see the money leaving their hands.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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A fun way to accomplish this with young children is to deposit coins in a parking meter. &quot;Let kids put the coins in,&quot; says Eileen Gallo. &quot;That way, they get to see what money is and that you get something for it. And when kids are 3 or 4, they love putting the coins in the meter.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Utilize a piggy bank for the 21st century.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;A traditional one-slit piggy bank doesn&#39;t teach kids much about money management, says Susan Beacham, CEO and cofounder of Money Savvy Generation in Lake Bluff, Ill., a company that helps parents and educators teach children to make good money choices. &quot;A lot of times, piggy banks make kids very distrustful,&quot; she says. &quot;If kids can&#39;t see through it, they don&#39;t trust that the money is in there.&quot; So Beacham developed the Money Savvy Pig, a see-through piggy bank with four slots: save, spend, donate, and invest. With the Money Savvy Pig, kids learn that money isn&#39;t just accumulated to buy things.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Take advantage of the Web.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Internet is full of age-specific money games for kids. Just last year, PNC Bank and Sesame Street teamed up to create&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/save&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;color: #005790; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;fun videos and games&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that teach kids about money. Many children will find it easy and exciting to learn about money from Elmo and his friends.&lt;/div&gt;
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Pearl recommends Doughmain.com, which has an array of child-friendly tools and games centered on money.&lt;/div&gt;
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A number of banks also have online tools for kids. Investment management firm T. Rowe Price offers&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://piggybank.disney.go.com/#price&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;color: #005790; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The Great Piggy Bank Adventure&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which uses a talking piggy bank to guide children through various financial lessons.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Let them play games.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Beacham says games are an excellent tool for approaching the topic of money with kids. &quot;Games become something you can use to open the discussion, so it&#39;s not always you preaching about money,&quot; she says. Grade-school children can play Planet Orange at OrangeKids.com. In the game, kids travel through the planets by completing certain jobs to earn money for gas.&lt;/div&gt;
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MassMutual, a financial advisory group based in Springfield, Mass., developed Save! The Game, an app for the iPad and iPhone that teaches kids the difference between wants and needs--a critical financial lesson, says Pearl.&lt;/div&gt;
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Also, don&#39;t disregard old-fashioned board games. The Game of Life, for example, teaches kids about the various&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/slideshows/quiz-are-you-spending-too-much-on-your-children&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;color: #005790; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;expenses&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;they&#39;ll encounter from college to retirement. Another favorite is the Allowance Game, in which kids go around the board doing chores and collecting an allowance, then spend their earnings on the things they want.&lt;/div&gt;
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However, Simunovic of ThreeJars.com expressed one concern: &quot;I&#39;m not a huge believer that games are going to teach our kids a whole lot about the way money is used in the real world.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Empower them to manage their own money.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Let your child play an active role in how money is used by offering them an allowance. But consistency is important: Many parents promise an allowance to their kids but don&#39;t deliver. If parents forget to pay the allowance, children learn that money promises can be broken. Beacham says this can potentially lead the child to think somewhere down the road, &quot;Hmm, maybe I don&#39;t have to pay my credit-card bill on time this month.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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Pearl adds that while an allowance can be tied to certain household chores, it shouldn&#39;t be used to discourage bad behavior (i.e., for every day you don&#39;t kick your brother, I&#39;ll give you $1).&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Encourage them to give back.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Giving to charity is fun for kids because they are instinctual givers, says Beacham. In addition to having your child donate money (to a charity of their choice), make philanthropy more enjoyable by getting the whole family involved. Volunteer together at the local soup kitchen or participate in a fundraiser at the neighborhood park.&lt;/div&gt;
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Above all, don&#39;t be afraid to talk to your kids about money. Says Godfrey: &quot;Our kids see us handling money every day, but we often forget to talk to them about what we&#39;re doing.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;In the short run, investment success can be accomplished in a myriad of ways. Speculators and day traders often deliver extraordinary high rates of return, sometimes within a few hours. Generating a superior rate of return consistently over a further time horizon, however, requires a masterful understanding of the market mechanisms and a definitive investment strategy. Two such market players fit the bill: Warren Buffet and George Soros.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Warren Buffet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Known as &quot;the Oracle of Omaha,&quot; Warren Buffet made his first investment at the tender age of 11. In his early 20s, the young prodigy would study at Columbia University, under the father of value investing and his personal mentor, Benjamin Graham. Graham argued that every security had an intrinsic value that was independent of its market price, instilling in Buffett the knowledge with which he would build his conglomerate empire. Shortly after graduating he formed &quot;Buffett Partnership&quot; and never looked back. Over time, the firm evolved into &quot;Berkshire Hathaway,&quot; with a market capitalization over $200 billion. Each stock share is valued at near $130,000, as Buffet refuses to perform a stock split on his company&#39;s ownership shares.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Warren Buffet is a value investor.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt; He is constantly on the lookout for investment opportunities&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investopedia.com/articles/05/012705.asp&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #005790; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;where he can exploit price imbalances over an extended time horizon&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Buffet is an arbitrageur who is known to instruct his followers to &quot;be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.&quot; Much of his success can be attributed to Graham&#39;s three cardinal rules: invest with a&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/08/margin-of-safety.asp&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #005790; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;margin of safety&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;, profit from volatility and know yourself. As such, Warren Buffet has the ability to suppress his emotion and execute these rules in the face of economic fluctuations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;George Soros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Another 21st century financial titan, George Soros was born in Budapest in 1930, fleeing the country after WWII to escape communism. Fittingly, Soros subscribes to the concept of &quot;reflexivity&quot; social theory, adopting a &quot;a set of ideas that seeks to explain how a feedback mechanism can skew how participants in a market value assets on that market.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=hieu819&amp;amp;a_bid=4a83a5fd&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; src=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/accounts/default1/banners/banner2-300x350.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Graduating from the London School of Economics some years later, Soros would go on to create the Quantum Fund. Managing this fund from 1973 to 2011, Soros returned roughly 20% to investors annually. The Quantum Fund decided to shut down based on &quot;new financial regulations requiring hedge funds to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission.&quot; Soros continues to take an active role in the administration of Soros Fund Management, another hedge fund he founded.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where Buffett seeks out a firm&#39;s intrinsic value and waits for the market to adjust accordingly over time, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Soros relies on short-term volatility and highly leveraged transactions&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;. In short, Soros is a speculator. The fundamentals of a prospective investment, while important at times, play a minor role in his decision-making.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;In fact, in the early 1990s, Soros made a multi-billion dollar bet&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-bank-of-england.asp&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #005790; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;that the British pound would significantly depreciate in value&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;over the course of a single day of trading. In essence, he was directly battling the British central banking system in its attempt to keep the pound artificially competitive in foreign exchange markets. Soros, of course, made a tidy $1 billion off the deal. As a result, we know him today as the man &quot;who broke the bank of England.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;The Bottom Line&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Warren Buffett and George Soros are contemporary examples of the some of the most brilliant minds in the history of investing. While they employ markedly different investing strategies, both men have achieved great success. Investors can learn much from even a basic understanding of their investment strategies and techniques.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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‘Invest in What You Know’ is one of the great ideas that the legendary fund manager Peter Lynch has given to the individual investor. There is a common behavioural bias for people to invest predominantly in stocks listed in their home countries because &lt;span style=&quot;background-color: lime;&quot;&gt;they feel more familiar&lt;/span&gt; with it. By taking note of products and services you use every day, you can increase your chances of finding good investment ideas within your home country and make the best out of this ‘familiarity bias’.&lt;/div&gt;
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When you use&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Google&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;﻿&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;203768&quot;&gt;(NASDAQ:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/GOOG.aspx&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-transition: color 0.5s linear, background-color 0.1s linear; color: #444444; outline: 0px;&quot;&gt;GOOG&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;to search for whatever you are trying to find out on the internet, you might marvel at how intuitive and relevant the search responses are as compared with other search engines. Dig a little deeper and you might realise Google is a great company with s&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;olid financials and really interesting future &lt;/span&gt;projects that might have as-yet-un-thought-of benefits for society such as the self-driven car. You can then ask yourself if Google will be a suitable place for your investment dollars -this in essence is how ‘Invest in What You Know’ can be put into practice.&lt;/div&gt;
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I invest in the US stock market even though I live in Singapore because I recognise that great investment opportunities are not limited by geography. So, when I had the rare opportunity to travel to Washington DC, I made it a point to visit USA-only restaurant stocks that I was already invested or interested in to try and obtain a first-hand experience of what it feels like to dine in there.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=hieu819&amp;amp;a_bid=52b47a34&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;600&quot; src=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/accounts/default1/banners/banner120x60_3.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;120&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I depend on Motley Fool’s discussion boards for my ‘&lt;a href=&quot;http://beginnersinvest.about.com/od/investorsmoneymanagers/a/scuttlebutt.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-transition: color 0.5s linear, background-color 0.1s linear; color: #444444; outline: 0px;&quot;&gt;scuttle butt&lt;/a&gt;’ research on&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Panera Bread&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;﻿&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;205019&quot;&gt;(NASDAQ:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/PNRA.aspx&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-transition: color 0.5s linear, background-color 0.1s linear; color: #444444; outline: 0px;&quot;&gt;PNRA&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;and since I was invested, I had to visit one in DC. After finding one and ordering a beef sandwich, I took note of the pricing of their sandwiches and how it actually tasted. The décor looked inviting and there was a healthy flow of people at lunch time – nice! It felt to me like Panera was a ‘Starbucks for Sandwiches’ which is a plus for me. The sandwiches are comparatively priced with other sandwich chains I saw in Washington DC, tasted great and portions were enough to fill a hungry stomach. I know this is anecdotal as I only managed to visit one restaurant but the evidence I saw first-hand corroborated with the general opinion of what the community at Motley Fool had described to me. I like it!&lt;/div&gt;
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I then thought about the international expansion opportunities of Panera, particularly in Asia. Using its pricing of sandwiches as a gauge, I noted that if that particular Panera was uprooted directly into Singapore, it might face a tough time because of pricing issues. The sandwiches in Starbucks were priced almost the same in USA and Singapore after conversion of currencies and they cost slightly more than a normal meal here. If I were to do so with Panera, the price of their sandwiches would be more than 2 times more expensive than what a typical Singaporean would pay for a normal meal - bear in mind that Singapore has one of the highest standards of living in Asia. Thus, I now know one important point to look out for if Panera wants to expand in Asia – pricing of their sandwiches or other food concepts it might want to try out.&lt;/div&gt;
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My next stop was&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Chipotle Mexican Grill&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;﻿&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;207668&quot;&gt;(NYSE:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/CMG.aspx&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-transition: color 0.5s linear, background-color 0.1s linear; color: #444444; outline: 0px;&quot;&gt;CMG&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;. I like the financials shown by the company but was not as familiar with it as I was with Panera. When I saw a Chipotle along the streets, I went in for a bite and was greeted with the biggest burrito I ever saw. I now come to appreciate Chipotle’s operating style – a few excellent choices in a few categories. It looked very streamlined and efficient and probably resulted in Chipotle having lower foodcosts than other fast-casual restaurant operators; I made a note to check on that later. I was also very excited when I got introduced to Chipotle’s Asian food concept: Shophouse Southeast Asian Kitchen (courtesy of new friends I made in Washington DC - Kyle and Sarah, thank you!). The food tasted authentic and delicious and more importantly, it was prepared and served in a similar manner to Chipotle’s Mexican food restaurants – a few excellent choices in a few categories. I thought it was great that Chipotle might have another avenue for growth in Shophouse. However, after further investigation, I found out that Chipotle has only opened one Shophouse so far and plans to open only one more in 2012. Shophouse is still in the testing phase for Chipotle and management is still unsure of whether they will pursue the expansion of Shophouse aggressively.&lt;/div&gt;
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This brought me to a corollary of ‘Invest in What You Know’ – that is, any attractive new product or service’s ability to fuel growth in a company is in direct relation to the proportion of overall sales that the new product or service is contributing. For Chipotle, which operates 1316 restaurants (from its latest quarterly filing), the number of potential Shophouse restaurants that management is looking at would not add any meaningful numbers to Chipotle’s sales and bottom line results in the next few years. Thus, any growth in Chipotle would have to come from its Mexican Grill restaurants.&lt;/div&gt;
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I also checked out Chipotle’s average food costs over FY 2009, 2010 and 2011 as a percentage of its revenue and found out that it compares very favourably with other fast-food and fast-casual restaurant operators. The table below shows these percentages. Chipotle’s numbers are even more remarkable given that they have a ‘Food with Integrity’ philosophy where they insist on having almost all of the food used in their restaurants to be organically grown. This increases their food costs as organic food generally costs more than conventionally farmed food. Knowing Chipotle’s philosophy and from my experience at their restaurant, I have a newfound appreciation for their operating style and am even more convinced now of Chipotle’s management’s capabilities.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Restaurant&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Food Costs as Percentage of Revenue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Chipotle Mexican Grill&lt;/div&gt;
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31.6%&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Buffalo Wild Wings&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;﻿&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;203017&quot;&gt;(NASDAQ:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/BWLD.aspx&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-transition: color 0.5s linear, background-color 0.1s linear; color: #444444; outline: 0px;&quot;&gt;BWLD&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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26.5%&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;Macdonald’s&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;﻿&lt;span class=&quot;ticker&quot; data-id=&quot;204400&quot;&gt;(NYSE:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/MCD.aspx&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-transition: color 0.5s linear, background-color 0.1s linear; color: #444444; outline: 0px;&quot;&gt;MCD&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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33.3%&lt;/div&gt;
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Panera Bread&lt;/div&gt;
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29.0%&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Table 1 – Food cost as percentage of revenue for different restaurant operators&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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My trip to USA has allowed me to know two of my favourite restaurants better and even though I already knew of their financial strengths before I observed them in person, you can also employ the same mindset and inquisitive spirit in products and services that you know are commonly being used and consumed. Who knows, you might be able to discover your next super-stock, just like how Peter Lynch found Hanes when he observed his wife buying their Leggs brand stockings and marvelling at its quality. Have fun investigating!&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;strong&gt;P.S&lt;/strong&gt;: After Peter Lynch bought Hanes’ stock, it appreciated by 600% before getting acquired!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.000webhost.com/&quot; onclick=&quot;this.href=&#39;http://www.000webhost.com/617725.html&#39;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Web hosting&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;60&quot; src=&quot;http://www.000webhost.com/images/banners/468x60/banner6.gif&quot; width=&quot;468&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/feeds/1164799509735445793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3767377003116408698/1164799509735445793' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/1164799509735445793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/1164799509735445793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/2012/09/invest-in-what-you-know.html' title='Invest in What You Know'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14055383346156173286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWvmmB79V15WuAi00wbK_xOrDG9GT7-qDtf2Wb5018xIAbXHu3hKbrqEJbCNCx_dhVEfFQ0bskZPki_5dhgQlIstrmm0udkKh4YyCpdijGsj5PWHuC_tNr6HKwW6lsuS7vO6uo_mXn5gqh/s72-c/did_you_know.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698.post-6701411063905179469</id><published>2012-09-05T19:38:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-09-05T19:38:41.724-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="advice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stock"/><title type='text'>3 Simple Ways to Stay Sane in the Market</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.6pt;&quot;&gt;By Michael Lewis |&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fool.com/author/2007/index.aspx?source=iapsitlnk0000003&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.6pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933;&quot;&gt;(The&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.6pt;&quot;&gt; Motley Fool)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 15.6pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;!--[endif]--&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;I don&#39;t blame
investors who are fleeing the equity markets. With the daily ups and downs, it
is downright maddening to be a participant. After you&#39;ve done your research,
consulted your advisor, and prayed to any array of deities, your prized
investment pick takes a 10% hit in a day because of a tepid earnings release.
So, all that considered, why would you want to be in the markets? The reason is
simple: &lt;span style=&quot;background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;&quot;&gt;Investing in
companies&lt;/span&gt;, in the long run, remains one of the best -- if not the&amp;nbsp;best
-- use of your non-essential capital. The key is to know how to view your
investments, as well as the market at large. These easy-to-use tips will keep
you from throwing your computer out the window the next time the market takes a
dive.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; padding: 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;I don&#39;t have cable. Not because I am trying to
be trendy and going &quot;unplugged,&quot; but because if I had access to all
the news/infotainment channels, I&#39;d watch them. And no matter the discipline
I&#39;ve cultivated over the years regarding the information pipeline, if I have
the telly tuned to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Mad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Money&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;long enough, I start to listen.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;This is a major contributor to market hysteria. The 24-hour news
cycle, for all of its benefits, is incredibly detrimental to the financial
world. There&#39;s no need to have all-day programming regarding the markets -- and
the networks know that. That&#39;s why they have to resort to sub-optimal
programming that borderlines sensationalism so that advertisers remain interested.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Luckily for you, you are ultimately in control of this
info-overload. No matter how appealing the headline may be regarding your
favorite company, just don&#39;t watch. Change the channel, or better yet, turn it
off.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Earlier in the summer,
toward the end of spring, investors and analysts were fleeing from mattress
companies like&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Select Comfort&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Nasdaq:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/SCSS.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933;&quot;&gt;SCSS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=SCSS&amp;amp;source=iwlsitbut0000010&quot; title=&quot;Add SCSS to My Watchlist&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Tempur-Pedic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;NYSE:&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/TPX.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933;&quot;&gt;TPX&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=TPX&amp;amp;source=iwlsitbut0000010&quot; title=&quot;Add TPX to My Watchlist&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) because of so-so demand reports repeatedly
covered on CNBC, Bloomberg, and the like. Stock prices absolutely dissolved
over the course of a few months, with the above-mentioned companies&#39; market
caps cut in half or more. What happened just two months later? Stellar earnings
reports and increased demand. Select Comfort went from its June dip of under
$20 per share to nearly $30 today. Tempur-Pedic climbed back up from its $23
low to above $30. Those who had listened to their TVs were urged to sell
&quot;before it&#39;s too late.&quot;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Takeaway: Your television is great for watching eccentric
personalities decompose on reality shows, not as guidance for your hard-earned
savings.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-highlight: yellow;&quot;&gt;2. Read often, read
thoroughly, read selectively&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; padding: 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;It is often said that Warren Buffett reads
hundreds upon hundreds of annual reports every year. Now, you don&#39;t need to
read that many, unless you are managing millions or billions of other people&#39;s
money, but pay attention to the fact that he reads&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;annual&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;reports.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Buffett goes right to the
source -- the SEC documents -- and reads the progress of a company over a
series of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;. He supplements this with daily&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;newspaper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;reading to keep on top of the news.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;You have been trained to pay attention to quarterly progress
reports for a company. When you do this, you are taking in short-term trends
that often arise from external factors beyond the control of the company in
question.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Hit the zoom-out button.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;For example: I have a
bullish CAPScall on&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Wynn Resorts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Nasdaq:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/WYNN.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933;&quot;&gt;WYNN&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=WYNN&amp;amp;source=iwlsitbut0000010&quot; title=&quot;Add WYNN to My Watchlist&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) . Since then, the company has dropped around
15%. The reason is softened demand and increased competition in the Macau
gaming arena. Did 15% of Steve Wynn&#39;s masterfully created empire disappear over
three months?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;I don&#39;t think so.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Wynn himself is widely
considered the best showrunner in all of the gaming industry. He&#39;s less
volatile and political than&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Las Vegas Sands&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sheldon Adelson,
and is very committed to a long-term plan. His method seems to have worked so
far -- he runs six resorts in Vegas, three of them considered to be the cream
of the crop. And he certainly wasn&#39;t the first guy in town. He&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;was&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;one
of the first guys in Macau, where his company, on a longer time horizon than a
single quarter, has made an absolute fortune.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;I don&#39;t really care about the &quot;softened demand&quot; in the
gaming industry or other players opening casinos in Macau. I have read Wynn&#39;s
annual reports for years, and I have researched Wynn himself. I am confident it
is a great company, and the most innovative in its space. As long as there are
human beings, there will be those who want to play the stakes. I am happy to
invest in the man who runs the best gaming shop around -- no matter what
short-term trends and pundits say. Because over eight years, the company has
returned over 14% annualized.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background: yellow; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-highlight: yellow;&quot;&gt;3. Be boring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=hieu819&amp;amp;a_bid=52b47a34&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/accounts/default1/banners/banner120x60_3.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;64&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; padding: 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;If you invest in tomorrow&#39;s world-changing
companies, you&#39;re going to be nervous today. Putting your money into a
high-tech company isn&#39;t going to let you sleep better at night. You are far
better off investing in easy-to-understand businesses with bulletproof revenue
drivers.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Take a look at a
company like&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Winmark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;NYSE:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://caps.fool.com/Ticker/WINA.aspx?source=isssitthv0000001&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933;&quot;&gt;WINA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.fool.com/watchlist/add?ticker=WINA&amp;amp;source=iwlsitbut0000010&quot; title=&quot;Add WINA to My Watchlist&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #339933; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) . Winmark franchises a variety of secondhand
stores , unloading the risk to the franchisee while collecting royalties. The
company also provides small and mid-sized business leasing services. It&#39;s one
of the least sexy companies I can think of -- and also one of my favorites. The
stock has risen nearly 20% over the last year, and in recent years has been
paying a respectable, sometimes chunky, dividend. To top things off, it is run
by a man who has been in this exact business his whole life and knows precisely
how to run it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: 8.25pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 8.25pt;&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.000webhost.com/&quot; onclick=&quot;this.href=&#39;http://www.000webhost.com/617725.html&#39;&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Web hosting&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://www.000webhost.com/images/banners/160x600/banner1.gif&quot; width=&quot;85&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;I can put my money in Winmark, knowing what the future holds for
it. In boom times, the company will do well from its leasing end, as more
people will be opening and expanding their businesses. In rougher times, the
secondhand stores will outperform the retail sector, handing over extra
royalties to the parent corporation. It&#39;s a stock that lets me sleep well on my
Select Comfort mattress.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;background: white; line-height: 16.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;&quot;&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;inherit&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;serif&amp;quot;; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;Carry on&lt;span style=&quot;border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #222222; font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;&quot;&gt;By isolating yourself from incessant media,
doing the right kind of homework, and sticking to basic businesses, you will
find yourself less stressed out by the market&#39;s irrationality. More
importantly, you will find your returns will be less volatile and more
attractive than the vast majority of professionally managed funds.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; src=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/scripts/imp.php?a_aid=hieu819&amp;amp;a_bid=52b47a34&quot; style=&quot;border: 0;&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/feeds/6701411063905179469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3767377003116408698/6701411063905179469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/6701411063905179469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/6701411063905179469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/2012/09/3-simple-ways-to-stay-sane-in-market.html' title='3 Simple Ways to Stay Sane in the Market'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14055383346156173286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698.post-5829770127166634199</id><published>2012-09-02T21:37:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2012-09-02T21:39:11.762-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Food for thought"/><title type='text'>Keep your dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;A story about a young man who was the son of an itinerant horse trainer who would go from stable to stable, race track to race track, farm to farm and ranch to ranch, training horses. As a result, the boy’s high school career was continually interrupted. When he was a senior, he was asked to write a paper about &lt;span style=&quot;color: magenta;&quot;&gt;what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;“That night he wrote a seven-page paper describing his goal of someday &lt;span style=&quot;color: magenta;&quot;&gt;owning a horse ranch&lt;/span&gt;. He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a diagram of a 200-acre ranch, showing the location of all the buildings, the stables and the track. Then he drew a detailed floor plan for a 4,000-square-foot house that would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;“He put a great deal of his heart into the project and the next day he handed it in to his teacher. Two days later he received his paper back. On the front page was&lt;span style=&quot;color: magenta;&quot;&gt; a large red F&lt;/span&gt; with a note that read, `See me after class.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;“The boy with the dream went to see the teacher after class and asked, `Why did I receive an F?’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.000webhost.com/&quot; onclick=&quot;this.href=&#39;http://www.000webhost.com/617725.html&#39;&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Web hosting&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;http://www.000webhost.com/images/banners/160x600/banner1.gif&quot; width=&quot;84&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;“The teacher said, `This is an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;unrealistic dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt; for a young boy like you. You have no money. You come from an itinerant family. You have no resources. Owning a horse ranch requires a lot of money. You have to buy the land. You have to pay for the original breeding stock and later you’ll have to pay large stud fees. There’s no way you could ever do it.’ Then the teacher added, `If you will rewrite this paper with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;“The boy went home and thought about it long and hard. He asked his father what he should do. His father said, `Look, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;son, you have to make up your own mind on this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt; However, I think it is a very important decision for you.’ “Finally, after sitting with it for a week, the boy turned in the same paper, making no changes at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;He stated, “&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: lime;&quot;&gt;You can keep the F and I’ll keep my dream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=hieu819&amp;amp;a_bid=ab9a0ef5&quot; style=&quot;clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;60&quot; src=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/accounts/default1/banners/banner-468x60.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;468&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;Monty then turned to the assembled group and said, “I tell you this story because you are sitting in my 4,000-square-foot house in the middle of my 200-acre horse ranch. I still have that school paper framed over the fireplace.” He added, “The best part of the story is that two summers ago that same schoolteacher brought 30 kids to camp out on my ranch for a week.” When the teacher was leaving, he said, “Look, Monty, I can tell you this now. When I was your teacher, I was something of a dream stealer. During those years I stole a lot of kids’ dreams. Fortunately you had enough gumption not to give up on yours.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: lime;&quot;&gt;“Don’t let anyone steal your dreams. Follow your heart, no matter what.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;&quot;&gt;1) Warren bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;&quot; /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;&quot;&gt;2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering ne&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;wspapers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world&#39;s largest private jet company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;7) Warren Buffet has given his CEO&#39;s only two rules.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=hieu819&amp;amp;a_bid=ab9a0ef5&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot; target=&quot;_top&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;50&quot; src=&quot;http://deal.com.sg/affiliate/accounts/default1/banners/banner-468x60.jpg&quot; title=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: magenta;&quot;&gt;Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your share holder&#39;s money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;9) Bill Gates, the world&#39;s richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;color: #333333;&quot;&gt;12) He has donated $31 billion (85% of his fortune) to charity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/feeds/252737279871007332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3767377003116408698/252737279871007332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/252737279871007332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/252737279871007332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-amazing-facts-about-warren.html' title='THE AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WARREN BUFFETT=&gt;&gt;3rd RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD:-'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14055383346156173286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698.post-8145714566213938485</id><published>2012-08-30T17:31:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2012-08-30T20:17:47.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Birthday Warren Buffett!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 12.800000190734863px;&quot;&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;hidden_link&quot; href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/oracle&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 12.800000190734863px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Oracle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 12.800000190734863px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Omaha,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-omaha-2012-8&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 12.800000190734863px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Warren Buffett turns 82&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 12.800000190734863px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;years young today.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;He may be one of the wealthiest people in the world.&amp;nbsp; But he&#39;s also known as the billionaire next door.&amp;nbsp; He comes off as humble and sometimes uses self-deprecating humor.&amp;nbsp; Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-berkshire-omaha-2012-8&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;lived in Omaha, Nebraska&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for most of his life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Buffett also uses extremely easy-to-understand language when referring to business and investments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Many of his most thoughtful quotes are found in his&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders&lt;/a&gt;, which are must reads.&amp;nbsp; But some of his gems come from random interviews, speeches, and op-ed pieces.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;We compiled a few of the best quotes from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a class=&quot;hidden_link&quot; href=&quot;http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/oracle&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Oracle&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;of Omaha. If we&#39;ve missed any of your favorites, let us know in the comments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12.800000190734863px;&quot;&gt;&quot;Rule No. 1: never lose money; rule No. 2: don&#39;t forget rule No. 1&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=msOBPzhVqGgC&amp;amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;amp;dq=The+Tao+of+Warren+Buffett,+by+Mary+Buffett+and+David+Clark&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=GIlq6PwuYf&amp;amp;sig=6TqkhSamAXN0F6oOT3THXg118PM&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=MSt1TLX_OoKB8gbw47GZBw&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The Tao of Warren Buffett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12.800000190734863px;&quot;&gt;&quot;Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2004.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Letter to shareholders, 2004&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12.800000190734863px;&quot;&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;color: #1d637d; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Letter to shareholders, 2000&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=msOBPzhVqGgC&amp;amp;pg=PA11&amp;amp;lpg=PA11&amp;amp;dq=warren+buffett+subway+advice&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=GJfp1MwAQh&amp;amp;sig=shmLEaG4cWm0y9G4FTpXv7Esj6I&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ei=rC7AToiDF6bh0QGX8u2yBA&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;resnum=5&amp;amp;ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;The Tao of Warren Buffett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&quot;When we own portions of outstanding&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: normal;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;our favorite holding period is forever.&quot;&lt;/h2&gt;
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&lt;em&gt;Source:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1988.html&quot; style=&quot;color: #1d637d; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Letter to shareholders, 1988&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In 1999 and early 2000, bull-market baloney was everywhere&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;On &lt;b&gt;December 7, 1999&lt;/b&gt;, Kevin Landis, portfolio manager of the Firsthand mutual funds, appeared on CNN’s Moneyline telecast. Asked if wireless telecommunication stocks were overvalued— with many trading at infinite multiples of their earnings—Landis had a ready answer. “It’s not a mania,” he shot back. “Look at the outright growth, the absolute value of the growth. It’s big.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;On &lt;b&gt;January 18, 2000&lt;/b&gt;, Robert Froelich, chief investment strategist at the Kemper Funds, declared in the Wall Street Journal: “It’s a new world order. We see people discard all the right companies with all the right people with the right vision because &lt;b&gt;their stock price is too high&lt;/b&gt;—that’s the worst mistake an investor can make.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In the &lt;b&gt;April 10, 2000&lt;/b&gt;, issue of BusinessWeek, Jeffrey M. Applegate, then the chief investment strategist at Lehman Brothers, asked rhetorically: “Is the stock market &lt;b&gt;riskier &lt;/b&gt;today than two years ago simply because prices are higher? The answer is &lt;b&gt;no&lt;/b&gt;.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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But the answer is &lt;span style=&quot;color: magenta; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;yes&lt;/span&gt;. It always has been. It always will be. And when Graham asked, “Can such heedlessness go unpunished?” he knew that the eternal answer to that question is no. Like an enraged Greek god, the stock market crushed everyone who had come to believe that the high returns of the late 1990s were some kind of divine right. Just look at how those forecasts by Landis, Froelich, and Applegate held up:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;From 2000 through 2002, the most stable of Landis’s pet wireless stocks, Nokia, lost “only” 67%—while the worst, Winstar Communications, lost 99.9%.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Froelich’s favorite stocks—Cisco Systems and Motorola—fell more than 70% by late 2002. Investors lost over $400 billion on Cisco alone—more than the annual&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;economic output of Hong Kong, Israel, Kuwait, and Singapore combined.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;In April 2000, when Applegate asked his rhetorical question, the Dow Jones Industrials stood at 11,187; the NASDAQ Composite Index was at 4446. By the end of 2002, the Dow was hobbling around the 8,300 level, while NASDAQ had withered to roughly 1300—eradicating all its gains over the previous six years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;&quot;&gt;Graham urges the intelligent investor to ask some simple, skeptical questions. Why should the future returns of stocks always be the same as their past returns? When every investor comes to believe that stocks are guaranteed to make money in the long run, won’t the market end up being wildly overpriced? And once that happens, how can future returns possibly be high?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/feeds/6571419323194946083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/3767377003116408698/6571419323194946083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/6571419323194946083'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3767377003116408698/posts/default/6571419323194946083'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://passiveincome12345.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-higher-they-go-harder-they-fall.html' title='The Higher They Go, The Harder They Fall'/><author><name>Anonymous</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14055383346156173286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3767377003116408698.post-9029909953650820335</id><published>2012-08-29T22:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2012-08-30T16:55:22.496-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="advice"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="stock"/><title type='text'>A Lesson Learned On Dollar Cost Averaging</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Staples (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gurufocus.com/stock/SPLS&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #005790; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;SPLS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;), interesting case study that may be insightful for others (it’s always best to learn the bad lessons vicariously).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;As I laid out in my August 10 article outlining my contest submission, I believe the company’s intrinsic value i&lt;b&gt;s north of $20 per share&lt;/b&gt;; at the time of writing, I had already taken a small position in the company, with a cost basis around &lt;b&gt;$14 per share&lt;/b&gt;. Since that time, the stock has been pummeled, falling roughly 20% in less than three weeks.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;Generally, my strategy is to average down on securities as they become more attractive, particularly if they possess an insurmountable competitive advantage that leads me to believe that any current fundamental (or price) weakness is temporary in nature. With Staples, this is &lt;b&gt;less certain&lt;/b&gt; – I’m much more confident about PepsiCo’s (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gurufocus.com/stock/PEP&quot; style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #005790; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;PEP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;) growth prospects in China over the next decade than I am with the shakeout of office supply retail chains in the U.S.&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;The recent price action has put me in a tough situation; while the Q2 results were weak, I still feel that the company’s delivery business will continue taking market share, and that the company will be the ultimate beneficiary of retail consolidation. The problem is that I’ve never been as confident in these assertions as would be necessary for me to make it a top holding in my portfolio (&lt;b&gt;on the other hand, I would buy PepsiCo hand over fist in a similar scenario).&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;What can be learned from this? I think a couple of conclusions can be drawn:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;1) Simply avoid companies that you &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: yellow; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;are not happy to purchase&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt; (in a big way) on short-term problems -&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;if you are not happy buying a company when its stock falls 25-30% on pure volatility, then you shouldn’t enter the position in the first place; if you are getting to a point where you’re too committed to a particularly gut-wrenching position, stretch out your purchases when averaging down (my biggest mistake) to leave adequate capital while still staying in your comfort zone (it’s better to miss the bottom tick than to be left with no dry powder while your mouth’s watering).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;2) Size your positions accordingly – particularly when initiating them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;When you see a tantalizing opportunity, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and act overly aggressive (neurologists have found that the anticipation of financial gain is similar to the brain activity of a cocaine addict); make sure to leave yourself the room to capitalize on further irrationality if the opportunity presents itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;3) Stay focused on what matters&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;–&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;and give investments the necessary time to play out.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;The important thing is to continue basing decisions upon sound (unbiased) fundamental analysis (an investment journal is a great way to compare your current thoughts with the original thesis).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helletica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 21px;&quot;&gt;While I’m not too happy with the way I’ve sized my stake in SPLS, I stick by the analysis presented in early August; time will tell whether or not that thesis was accurate.&lt;/span&gt;
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(ĐTCK-online) Warrent Buffet is the world coming to our shores and called him the most successful investors of all time. However, he himself always recognized that: most talented investors make mistakes. He wrote annual letters to the shareholders of the Company Bershire Hathaway and tell about the biggest investment mistake. There are many things we need to learn from decades of experience Buffett&#39;s investment. Here are three typical mistakes.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.983333587646484px;&quot;&gt;In 2008, Buffett bought a large stake in Conoco Phillips (COP) for the purpose of speculation on energy prices in the future. Buffett said that many people would agree about the price of oil will rise in the long term. And so, COP would earn profit. However, this investment did not end as expected, because Buffett bought at too high a price. As a result, Berkshire several billion loss in this investment. Thus, a good company to do business does not mean a great investment if you buy in the stock price is not reasonable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.983333587646484px;&quot;&gt;Investors are easily swept away by the excitement to meet increasing market status simultaneously. Now, we often buy stocks at a price that should not have bought. The investors to control their emotions more often an objective analysis. An independent investor mentality than the market can realize that the price of crude oil continued with very strong amplitude fluctuations and stocks of oil companies have long become a bubble about to burst .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.983333587646484px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;When investing, optimism is our friend. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: lime;&quot;&gt;But excitement is the enemy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.983333587646484px;&quot;&gt;Stories with USAir Company: Confusion between the annual income growth with the&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt; success of the company&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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In 1989, Buffett bought preferred shares of USAir because the company&#39;s annual growth rate is very high. But this investment is quickly becoming a concern for Buffett when USAir was not enough profit to pay dividends to preferred shares. Fortunately, then Buffett liquidated stock lots at a profit. Although he is lucky, Buffett also realizes that profit from the deal because of the &quot;Goddess of luck&quot; and over-excited state of the market.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt;In 2007, Buffett has pointed out very clearly in his letter: Sometimes, if you look at revenue growth of a business, we can see that this company is doing very well. However, to maintain growth, the need to spend a huge amount of capital. In the case of the airline industry always needs new aircraft to expand revenue, the issue of the types of businesses require &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt;large capital&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white;&quot;&gt; is when companies _ large sales volume, it sank deeper into debt. It can only leave little for shareholders and easy to fall into bankruptcy if the business is reduced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett comment:
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The investors were pouring money into a bottomless pit, attracted by growth, while they should have stay away from it.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.983333587646484px;&quot;&gt;Stories with&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;line-height: 17.983333587646484px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;with Dexter Shoes Company: Investing in a business does not have&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: yellow;&quot;&gt; a competitive advantage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
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In 1993, Buffett bought shares of a shoe company called Dexter Shoes. His investment in this shoe company quickly became a disaster, because long-term competitive advantage of the company quickly disappeared. &quot;What I have to assess a company&#39;s competitive advantage has disappeared in the last few years,&quot; Buffett said, and said that this is the worst investment he ever made​​. It makes Berkshire Hathaway shareholders lost $ 3.5 billion.&lt;/div&gt;
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Enterprises can earn high returns only when a special competitive advantage compared to other companies in the same business area. Wal-Mart sales with very cheap price. Honda created with excellent quality. When companies can provide these things better than the other companies, it also creates high rates of return. If not, the high profits attract competitors and the audience will quickly gain all the profits of the company.&lt;/div&gt;
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Buffett comment:
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&quot;A truly great companies have long-term private secret protection for excellent profits brought from the capital.&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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Although mistakes with money always brings a painful experience, but paying a little &quot;fees&quot; are not synonymous with the final loss. If we analyze the mistakes and learn from it, we can easily earn back the money spent on the next one. All investors, including Buffett, have to understand that mistakes are inevitable.&lt;/div&gt;
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