Warren Buffett: We Prefer Businesses That Are Drowning In Cash

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In the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, Warren Buffett explained that investment involves assessing an asset’s potential to generate future returns, focusing on its fundamentals rather than market speculation. He highlights the importance of understanding a business’s nature and financial statements to predict its future performance. Buffett shares his approach … Read More

Charlie Munger: Great Investors Remain Rational, Objective, and Dispassionate

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Here’s some great Charlie Munger quotes from the book Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor, by Tren Griffin. Munger is highlighting the importance of investors remaining rational, objective, and dispassionate: Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money; it’s a binding principle. Rationality is a … Read More

Charlie Munger: Moral Investing – We Could See It Was Like Putting $100 Million In A Bushel Basket And Setting It On Fire As We Walked Away

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Here’s a great video with Charles Munger and Warren Buffett at the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in which they discuss the moral distinction between buying a stock and a company. Here’s an excerpt from the video: CHARLIE MUNGER: Yeah. I think he’s asking in part, are there some businesses … Read More

Charlie Munger On Telsa and Elon Musk

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We’ve just been watching a great recent interview with Charlie Munger in which he was asked his thoughts on Telsa and Elon Musk. Here’s his response: Munger: Well it’s already created more significance than anybody would have predicted and its founder is bold and brilliant and swings for the fences. … Read More

Charlie Munger: The First Rule Of Value Investing

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Here’s a great interview with Charlie Munger and Yahoo Finance Editor-In-Chief Andy Serwer. During the interview Munger discusses the first rule of value investing: Value investing has changed over the years, but the fundamental way its disciples think about it hasn’t, according to Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) vice chair Charlie Munger. … Read More

Charlie Munger: The Stock Picking Industry Is Four Or Five Percent Super-Rational, Disciplined People, And The Rest Of Them Are Sort Of Like Faith-Healers Or Shamans

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One of the best resources for investors are the Daily Journal Annual Meetings chaired by Charles Munger. During the 2015 Annual Meeting Munger was asked the following question regarding indexing and what it might lead to: “Indexing has grown a lot in the last thirty years or so as a form … Read More