🔟 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Investing (thread)

1/ Stock prices & business profits are not at all linked in the short-term,

but are 100% linked in the long-term

Own companies that will have much higher profits in 10 years than they do today

Mental Model:
2/ Know the odds

If 50% of your stock picks outperform, you're doing great!

The random odds of picking a winner Image
3/ Good CEOs don't want their stock price below $10

If it's there, it probably deserves to be
4/ Allocation is a great risk-reduction tool

If you like it, but it's risky, just invest less

Add more over time as the business gets less risky
5/ Invest in the greatest companies you can find

Use checklists to find them
6/ You are almost never late on the best growth stocks

I thought I missed:

$AMZN in 2010

$NFLX in 2012

$V in 2014

$SHOP in 2018

(I didn't)
7/ High-quality recurring revenue makes growth nearly automatic

Fill your portfolio with companies that earn revenue from the same customers again and again Image
8/ High-quality stocks deserve to trade at a premium

Be willing to pay up to own them
9/ Winners keep on winning

Losers keep on losing

It's a great sign if a company has already beaten the market by a wide margin
10/ Learn to separate the signal from the noise

Cause there's A TON of noise on Wall Street

Focus on the metrics that matter. Ignore everything else. Image

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29 Nov
1/

My Mission: To Spread Financial Wellness (thread)

I added some free sheets to my public checklist to help do just that

New Tabs:

1⃣Profile
2⃣Personal Finance Checklist
3⃣Goals
4⃣Income Statement
5⃣Net Worth Statement

Details are below 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇
2/ Profile Page

These are the exact sheets that I've used to help friends/family get their finances in order

First is the profile page, where I get answers to some of the most important money questions

Personal finance is PERSONAL, so it's important to know the answers
3/ Personal Finance Checklist

There's a lot to keep in mind -- hence why checklists are AWESOME

Broken down into several categories like

1⃣Financial
2⃣Building Wealth
3⃣Safety
4⃣Key Questions
5⃣Free Tools
6⃣Eduation

Fill in "Yes" when you've completed them!
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25 Nov
1/

19 Funny Stock Market quotes, thoughts, and images (thread)

"Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway."

-- Warren Buffett
2/

"Every day, self-proclaimed stock market 'experts' tell us why the market just went up or down, as if they really knew.

So where were they yesterday?"

-- Anonymous
3/

"If stock market experts were so expert,

they would be buying stocks,

not selling advice."

-- Norman R. Augustine
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Mega-winners are often the 'top dogs' in their industry

Finding them early is HARD

Here are7⃣signs you may have found one

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1⃣Hard to categorize

$TSLA wasn't a traditional auto. No dealers. DTC sales. All electric. Didn't fit the mold

$NFLX was DVD-by-mail. No retail stores. Weird!

Some follow Blue Ocean Strategy - Create NEW markets

Ex:
$BL real-time accounting
$NVCR electric fields treat cancer
2⃣Product/service is a HUGE improvement over what exists today

$ISRG -> Robotic surgery - increases precision, less scaring

$ALGN -> Clear braces - removable, can't see them

$PODD -> Tubeless insulin pumps - no wires!

$DXCM -> Continous glucose readings

$NNOX ?
Read 9 tweets
22 Nov
1/ If I woke up broke (thread)

Interesting thought experiment -- what would you do if you woke up with $0 net worth (or negative)?

Here's what I would do

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2/ I'd start by slashing all of my costs TO THE BONE

Restaurants - gone
Subscriptions - gone
Vacations - gone

ALL costs -- fixed and variable -- would be reduced as much as possible

All food would be made at home

All fun would come from free sources only (dark green)
3/ I'd focus INTENSELY on boosting my income

All waking hours would be used towards increasing income, especially overtime/bonuses

Free time would be spent on side hustles

Great list by @BudgetsAreSexy:

budgetsaresexy.com/ways-to-make-m…

Taking care of animals sounds good to me!
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20 Nov
1/ Book recommendations (thread)

Start Here:

Choose FI
Richest Man in Babylon
Millionaire Next Door
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Wealthy Barber

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
2/ Business Books

Good to Great
Business Adventures
Built to Last
Competition Demystified
Blue Ocean Strategy
The Innovators Dilemma
How to Build a Company that Warren Buffett Would Buy
The Outsiders
3/ Biographies

Buffett
Made in America
Hard Drive
Snowball
Elon Musk
Steve Jobs
The Everything Store
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17 Nov
1/ Homeowners can get guaranteed high returns through energy savings projects (thread)

I've done many of them myself and now have ridiculously low energy bills, which PERMANENTLY lowers a fixed-cost

Here are 15 ideas

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2/ Install LED lightbulbs everywhere

A few hundred dollars cover the whole house

Easy and ROI well over 100%
3/ Programmable thermostat

ROI 25% to 100%+ depending on how advanced you go
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