Pat Dorsey’s little book-“THAT BUILDS WEALTH” The Game Plan IDENTIFY businesses capable of generating above average returns over many years. WAIT to buy, until they begin to trade at OR below their intrinsic value. HOLD till business deteriorates shares are extremely overvalued a better investment is found REPEAT till you die. Keep asking yourself what…
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RISK and its many Avatars by Howard Marks
Risk The world believes that you have to take a higher risk to get a higher reward. Value investors chuckle at this model as they believe in low risk high reward model. After reading this book by Marks, I can’t help but chuckle at the value investors too. Value investors are looking at the ratio…
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“We make instant coffee, and take instant decisions !” – CCL Products
CCL Products fell by about 8% today, as the ANALysts (yes that was intentional 🙂 ) were unhappy with the growth figures, compared to last quarter/six months. I don’t know when they will understand that companies will not grow in a linear fashion. You just have to think long term. Most of their questions in todays call…
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How Singapore INCENTIVISED itself into a First World Country
Singapore went from a Third World country to a first world country in 50 years. This is already impressive but what makes this transformation phenomenal is that this country was just a British Colony, without any natural resources, less than 700q km and no army. They achieved independence from the British and Malaysia, but their…
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Simple and effective thoughts by George Soros
This is a book summary of “Soros on Soros – Staying Ahead of the curve “. We try to simplify things. We don’t have a real or a scientific way to measure risk. People who are in the derivative business have very elaborate risk calculations. We are amateurs.We live in the Stone Age. Deliberately so. Lots of…
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The Shipping Man – Book Summary – An entertaining insight into the global shipping business
This book is probably the best book one can read to get an insight into the shipping finance business as well as the over all shipping business. This is a piece of fiction but its loaded with so much investing sense, that it just ought to be read by investors. If you simply replace “shipping”…
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Book Summary of – Charlie Munger – The Complete Investor – by Tren Griffin
INTRODUCTION Munger’s ability to cut to the heart of an issue with a few well chosen words is legendary, as is his desire to think independently. Munger is such an interesting person, in no small part because he is, in a word UNRESTRAINED. He once said, ” While Warren may be remembered as a teacher,…
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