📚 Book-a-Day January

Top 10 Lessons from The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt

[thread] 1. Focus on investing in companies that are undervalued by the market, but have strong financial metrics.

📚 Book-a-Day January

Top 10 Takeaways from The Intelligent Investor, by Ben Graham (Warren Buffett's idol)

[thread] 1. Investing is a long-term game, and it is important to focus on the long-term growth potential of a company rather than short-term fluctuations in the stock market.

Top 10 Takeaways from Millionaire Next Door

[thread] 1. Spend less than you earn: This is the key to building wealth and financial stability.

By consistently spending less than you earn, you will be able to save and invest more, which will allow you to grow your wealth over time.

Top 10 takeaways from the book Sapiens:

[thread] 1. The Agricultural Revolution was a major turning point in human history, as it led to the creation of civilizations and the rise of social hierarchies.

Let's talk about LEAPS options and why they might be a good addition to your portfolio

LEAPS are:

Long-term
Equity
AnticiPation
Securities A LEAPS option is just a Call option that expires about 6 months - 3 years from now

As you know, buying a Call option is a bet that a stock will go up over time

Why would you want to buy a LEAPS instead of buying shares?

LEVERAGE

Here's an example:

Warren Buffett’s Top 10 Rules of Investing, Twitter meme style

[THREAD] Rule #1: never lose money

Rule #2: never forget Rule #1

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How to get rich - without getting lucky:

(Naval's thread was awesome but this is mine)

[THREAD] HAVE A SOLID 9-5

Yeah I said it

A solid 9-5 for benefits, socializing with people, getting ideas, etc. You can always cut back your hours later

Most importantly- BE UNDEREMPLOYED

Don't be the guy working 80 hours a week trying to get a 4% raise

Save your energy for your...

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Top 10 Nipsey Hussle Quotes for Money Twitter

Nipsey was a rapper and entrepreneur, who even founded his own record label with earnings from his music

Talk about a side hustle!

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“I want to invest in assets as opposed to trick off my money on liabilities like diamonds and cars that lose value as soon as you drive it off the lot.

It looks good, but... it’s losing value. It’s depreciating not appreciating.”

Make your money make more money!

Qualified Dividends

vs

Ordinary Dividends

Q: What's the difference?

A: 10-19% tax savings on your dividends!

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👇👇👇 What is a Qualified Dividend?

It's the same as an Ordinary Dividend except it's taxed at a lower federal rate

An Ordinary Dividend becomes a Qualified Dividend when you hold the stock for 60 days out of the 121 day period before the ex-dividend date

Here's the tax rates 👇

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🙏 Thanks so much to you all!

I love the support we all give each other on this side of Twitter

I'll share a story of how I bet on myself and hopefully inspire at least one of you to do the same

[An autobiographical thread] Seems like a lifetime ago, I took a steady office job at a medium size family owned company.

I was making $13/hour and was happy about that.

But immediately I felt the disappointment of having an unqualified manager, only in charge bc of tenure

I promised myself I'd stay...

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𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 for Money Twitter

Aubrey Drake Graham is a biracial rapper from Toronto who has amassed a $150 Million fortune

#3 highest earning rapper

His businesses include a record label & a whiskey brand

What can we learn from Drake?

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"Nowadays it’s six-figures when they tax me/ Oh well, guess you lose some and win some, long as the outcome is income."

One big excuse we see around here is "If I make more money, I'll just have to pay more taxes"

So what? It's still more than you had before...

Q: What are fractional shares and why do they matter?

A: Fractional shares lets you buy shares of stock in small increments

For example, you could buy $1 worth of Apple stock instead of saving up $462 for 1 full share

Why should you care?

[THREAD] There are 2 main reasons why companies DON'T split shares

1. Some companies believe a high share price brings a level of prestige

2. Warren Buffett famously said he'll never split Berkshire A-Class stock bc he wants to attract only "like minded" investors

That means - not you

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Tech stocks have not been known to be dividend payers -

But there are some established tech companies who do!

Here are 7 tech stocks worthy of consideration:

#dividends Cisco has been paying dividends since 2011

Ticker: $CSCO
Price: $46.71
Yield: 3.10%