10 timeless investing principles, visualized:
1: Zoom out
1: Zoom out
2: Don't invest until you're ready.
Master your personal finances first.
Master your personal finances first.
3: In the beginning, your savings rate is all that matters.
Over time, your investment returns become all that matters.
Focus your attention accordingly.
Over time, your investment returns become all that matters.
Focus your attention accordingly.
4: What’s risky in the short-term is safe in the long-term.
What’s safe in the short-term is risky in the long-term.
What’s safe in the short-term is risky in the long-term.
5: Dollar cost averaging makes market timing irrelevant.
6: A business and its stock are 0% correlated in the short-term but 100% correlated in the long-term
7: Humans are born to be bad at investing.
Expect your emotions to play all kinds of tricks on you.
Expect your emotions to play all kinds of tricks on you.
8: Handling volatility in bull markets is easy.
Handling volatility in bear markets is damn hard.
Handling volatility in bear markets is damn hard.
9: You can't know everything.
Define when you know enough to make a decision.
Define when you know enough to make a decision.
10: I love stock investing, but never lose sight of what actually matters
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Last one:
Stocks only provide predictable returns in spreadsheets.
Expect to be surprised (in both directions).
Stocks only provide predictable returns in spreadsheets.
Expect to be surprised (in both directions).
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