My fav investing Teachers & what I learned from them.
✔️Long-term focus🔭
Warren Buffett
Charlie Munger
Chuck Akre
✔️Growth📈
Philip Fisher
Clayton Christensen
David Gardner
✔️Behavioral🧠
Benjamin Graham
Howard Marks
Seth Klarman
✔️Process🗒️
Peter Lynch
Pat Dorsey
Nick Sleep
Some key points on each.
✔️Long-term focus
Buffett : Business Owner mindset (as an investor) will prompt you to think/act long-term. Time is a friend of excellent Business and a foe of the mediocre ones.
Munger : Learn and practice multi-disciplinary thinking. Patience & common sense are rewarded in the long-term.
Akre : Developing a simple approach (for buying/holding) that will help you stay with the good companies for a long time.
Understanding the Market cycles and the factors that impact them (Capital availability, attitudes towards risk, optimism/pessimism taken to extremes) can be really helpful for long-term investors.
✔️On what causes Cycles and why trends go to excess
I love this new format even more as it lists the stocks mentioned (if any in detail) in the letters.
Always good to read well researched/written long or short commentary from some smart investors on our Portfolio/Watchlist companies.
My fav pts from some new ones I read recently in the thread below.
✔️Guardian Funds on investing in
-Thriving Digitally native businesses
-Founders that focus on culture, innovation, long-term thinking
-having an owner mindset as an investor
Anyone who signs stuff - "I can't wait to get back to pen/paper signing and waste a bunch of time going around places signing stuff."
2⃣ $TWLO
Developers : I hate using easy-to-use Communication APIs in all my channels and would love to re-create the wheel myself by spending a lot of time/effort.
We went thru US and Eurozone recession fears, three US Presidential elections, Brexit, Terrorism events, many Taper tantrums, a deadly Pandemic and many more major events/headlines and here we are.
I take screenshots like these during Bear Markets and extreme volatility periods (took many during GFC, Fall 2011, Feb 2016, 4Q-2018, March 2020...) as a reminder that whatever is the news of the day will blow over and the real issues (GFC/COVID...) will get resolved with time.