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Warren Buffett And His Shareholders Paid 21 Miles in Taxes
Imagine piling 32 billion dollars in a stack of newly printed $100 bills. How high would it reach? Warren Buffett knows the answer: it's 21 miles high - or three times the level commercial airlines usually fly at. He took the time to figure that out, because 32...
Five Reasons Women Are Better Investors
Men take up a lot of space when it comes to stock investing, but women are better investors. Men are equity analysts, equity experts, shareholders, board chairmen, CEOs and financial experts. Men debate in posts and make up 90% of participants in most stock-related...
My Top 9 Money Tips I Wish I’d Known Sooner
I have created my dream life. That is, money has created my dream life. With a bit of help from me. I live in Portugal with the freedom and lifestyle that I desire. But it has not always been like this. Far from it. In a way, I have lived two lives. One with a 9-5...
The 50 Most Important Life Lessons I Wish I Had Known Since Childhood
A few days ago, I turned 50. I'm in the middle of life, and I'm happier and more at peace with myself than I've ever been before. Why? Because I have become wiser with time and experiences. I have failed, lived life and learned a lot of things. I stand more solidly on...
How David Einhorn Made Record Returns in 2022
For most stock investors, last year was a year of stock market losses. But not for the well-known value investor David Einhorn – it was his best year ever. While the leading stock index S&P fell around 20 percent for the year, David Einhorn had a positive return...
Napoleon Hill’s 13 Steps to Use Law of Attraction
What is the secret to creating wealth and living a successful life? Over 100 years ago, the famous industrialist Andrew Carnegie asked the journalist Napoleon Hill if he would dedicate his life to finding out what the secret behind wealth and success was. Fortunately...
Here Is Bill Ackman’s 9-point Checklist
Bill Ackman is one of the most successful stock investors of recent times. He has made some pretty good stock market bets - among others, in the American fast-food chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, which more than quadrupled in value in the few years since he invested in...
How to Change Your Money Identity to Stock Market Investor
The other day I spoke with a former student who bought her first stock because she wanted to change her money identity. She called it an "identity investment". A what? Yes, you see… She came from a family where security was valued and stocks were considered risky....
These Are My Personal Goals for 2023
New Year’s is a good time to take stock of the past year and set some strong goals for the new year. In this blog post, I explain how I both succeeded and failed with last year’s goals, and how I’m setting new and better ones for 2023. If you want to know how I do it,...
How To Set Better Goals For 2023
Have you ever wondered how some people achieve the things they set out to do, while others don't? How about you? Do you achieve the goals you set for yourself? What happened to your goals from last year? Did you make it? Most people set New Year's resolutions once a...
When Should I Sell Shares in a Company I’ve Invested In?
When turmoil hits the stock market, it can be tempting to throw all positions overboard like unwanted rats on the ship. Many beginners are focused on learning what to invest in and when to invest - and at some point, it hits them that they also have to decide when to...
Beware of These 7 Money Habits That Keep You Poor
Many of the things we do regularly are automatic. These are habits that we cling to because we haven't learned anything else. Or maybe we haven’t thought about it. Maybe we are just copying someone else’s habit. This also applies to money. Do you have money habits...
How to Reduce Taxes on Stocks 2022
Taxes can eat up a big chunk of your capital gains, and they really affect the long-term effect of compounding. The good news is that there are steps you can take to minimize the taxes you pay on stock gains. The tax regulations are different from country to country,...
How to Read an Annual Report Like Mohnish Pabrai
How do you read a company's annual report? It's a question I often get. The renowned value investor Mohnish Pabrai was recently asked that exact question in a YouTube video. Luckily for us, he answered. This is obviously very valuable information, as he is a gifted...
Why I’m Grateful that COVID-19 Messed Up My Life
When Denmark locked down in the spring of 2020, I, like many others around the world, watched the news unfold with confusion and a growing sense of isolation. I was alone with two small boys (3 and 6 years old at the time), and I felt trapped. I couldn't even run down...
Ten symptoms That You Lack a Strategy With Your Stock Market Investments
I have heard many stories about how badly it can affect private investors and their families when stocks plunge. I've heard of heart palpitations at night, of panic over selling stocks at the wrong time, and of marriages breaking up because of financial arguments. It...
Five Types of Companies You Should Avoid in a Recession
Warren Buffett says there are only two rules in investing: Never lose money. Never forget rule number 1. It sounds so simple. But how do you avoid losing money? The most important thing is to avoid investing in companies that go bankrupt. In a recession, more...
Three Things Running Can Teach You About Investing
Sometimes when I run, I think about how much running and stock market investing have in common. Actually, running is super simple. You just have to put one foot in front of the other. It's an effective form of exercise, and you can probably add a decade to your life...
Why Did Michael Burry Sell All His Stocks and Shares?
When Michael Burry steps out of the stock market, people wonder why. The legendary hedge fund manager Michael Burry became famous for predicting the 2008 financial crisis, as depicted in the movie The Big Short, which was based on true events. In the second...
Five Reasons Not to Trust Analysts’ Recommendations
“Is there a recommendation to buy stocks in the company?” “What do the analysts say about it?” These are the kinds of questions I often hear people ask when they are considering investing in a company. Most people have blind faith in stock analysts as experts and...
Whether Stocks Will Fall or Soar and What You Should Do About It
This year has been a difficult time for many stock market investors. Shares dived the first six months of the year, and few of them have escaped the plunge. In fact, the major U.S. stock index S&P 500 has had its worst first six months in half a century, according...
Five Hacks for Getting Productive After a Vacation
We all know the feeling. You're back from a long vacation, and now you barely remember how the coffee machine works. While you've been away, tasks have piled up while your pace is slower than before. How do you get into it again? Where should you start, and how? This...
The Top 20 Online Sites For Stock Market Investors
There are a lot of tools available for you as an investor, but it's easy to get lost on the internet. This list will help you cut to the chase and find the best sites quicker. Here are the 20 best online tools and websites for value investors: 1. The Company's Own...
Three Reasons I Want to Invest for Others
When I began blogging five years ago, I looked around the investment landscape and noticed how ordinary people gambled with their money. Back then, the trend was cannabis stocks and small IPOs that didn’t have a chance to really fly. It made me want to blog about...
Bill Ruane’s 4 Guiding Principles to Investing in Stocks
How does Bill Ruane - the only investor that Warren Buffett has ever recommended - actually invest? When Warren Buffett closed his partnership in 1969, he gave his partners two choices. They could either stay in Berkshire Hathaway, shares that his partnership had...
The 12 Investing Books that Made Michael Burry
Michael Burry, who became famous as an investor when he shorted subprime before the financial crisis, a story which was dramatized in The Big Short, is not a trained economist, and he has never gone to business school. He is, on the contrary, a trained doctor....
7 Ways to Stomach the Volatility in the Market
Stocks are diving, and when you read the business news, your eyes stop on words like "collapse," "crash," and "blood-red." You feel a sting of anxiety in your stomach when you read the headlines or visit your online bank - which confirms that yes, your stocks and...
Top 10 Takeaways from Buffetts 2022 Berkshire Hathaway Meeting
Every year in early May, over 30,000 shareholders travel to Omaha, Nebraska to hear Warren Buffett and his partner, Charlie Munger, answer questions. Officially, it’s the annual shareholders’ meeting of Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway. But that’s not really what...
Five Reasons to Let Others Invest for You
I’m all about getting educated about money, finance, and stocks and making your own investment decisions. Sometimes, however, there can be some sound reasons for letting others invest for you instead of doing it yourself. Over the last four years, I have blogged and...
Ten Key Takeaways from Charlie Munger’s Daily Journal Talk
A few weeks ago, Charlie Munger answered questions at the Daily Journal's general meeting, which is an event that many value investors look forward to. They do so because Charlie Munger - like his friend and partner Warren Buffett - is one of the best stock market...
