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Most people see investing as just stocks and numbers, but the world's greatest investors approach it differently. Their biggest lessons go beyond money—they're about how to think, make smarter decisions, and live a richer life. William Green, bestselling author of Richer, Wiser, Happier, has interviewed over 50 legendary investors, including Charlie Munger, Howard Marks, and Sir John Templeton. Along the way, he's uncovered powerful insights that apply not just to investing but to leadership, business, and personal growth. In this episode, William shares what leaders can learn from investors about making better decisions, avoiding costly mistakes through inversion thinking, and applying the power of compounding to knowledge, relationships, and habits. He reveals why mastering emotions matters more than mastering money, why intuition is just as critical as data, and how knowing your circle of competence helps you focus on playing games you're equipped to win and knowing your limits. We also explore how ethical leadership isn't just the right thing to do—it's a long-term advantage, and long-term success is often tied to integrity, self-awareness, and learning from both wins and failures. ________________ Start your day with the world's top leaders by joining thousands of others at Great Leadership on Substack. Just enter your email: https://greatleadership.substack.com/
In this episode, William Green chats with British investing legend Terry Smith. Terry, a member of Bloomberg's index of billionaires, manages the Fundsmith Equity Fund, which is the UK's largest stock fund. Since 2010, it's returned more than 600%, beating the MSCI World Index by over 200 percentage points. Here, Terry talks in depth about the skills, personality traits, & principles that catapulted him from poverty to the pinnacle of the investing world. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 04:01 - How Terry Smith was shaped by poverty & violence. 35:17 - How he achieved fame by exposing financial deception. 39:26 - What he looks for when identifying great businesses. 46:54 - Why many of his favorite companies are 100 years old. 51:56 - Which sectors he shuns & which he likes. 58:42 - How Microsoft embodies what he loves in a business. 1:00:29 - Why it's worth paying up for the best companies. 1:20:15 - Why the US is his favorite place to invest. 1:21:44 - How being a CEO made him a better investor. 1:32:07 - What he learned from Sir John Templeton. 1:35:46 - Why he refuses to speak with brokers or read their research. 1:40:30 - Why it's hard to be successful professionally & personally. 1:52:46 - Why he's deeply skeptical about Tesla. Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Terry Smith's investment firm, Fundsmith. Terry Smith's book, Investing for Growth. Terry Smith's book, Accounting for Growth. William Green's book, “Richer, Wiser, Happier” – read the reviews of this book. Follow William Green on X. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. Enjoy ad-free episodes when you subscribe to our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Get smarter about valuing businesses in just a few minutes each week through our newsletter, The Intrinsic Value Newsletter. Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: SimpleMining Netsuite Unchained Hardblock Found Fintool The Bitcoin Way Vanta Onramp TurboTax PrizePicks Vanta Fundrise HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Spotify! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm
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Der DAX schloss mit +0,4 % bei 21.589 Punkten und bewegt sich weiter Richtung Rekordhoch. Der ATX TR blieb mit 8.834 Punkten unverändert. Die US-Börsen starteten verhalten, belastet durch Unsicherheiten um Trumps Handelspolitik. Gold kletterte als sicherer Hafen auf ein Rekordhoch von 2.877 US-Dollar, während Bitcoin unter 100.000 US-Dollar bleibt. Google enttäuschte mit schwächer als erwarteten Quartalszahlen - die Aktie verlor nachbörslich über 7 %. AMDs KI-Geschäft wächst langsamer als erhofft, was die Aktie um 5 % sinken ließ. Hingegen legte Mattel dank einer starken Prognose um 14 % zu. Die Autobranche bleibt unter Druck, während der Immobiliensektor von Analystenlob profitiert: Vonovia (+3,5 %), TAG Immobilien (+3,2 %) sowie LEG und Aroundtown stiegen. Der Rüstungskonzern KNDS übernimmt das Alstom-Werk in Görlitz, das künftig Panzerteile fertigen soll. Börsenweisheit des Tages: "Erfolgreich investieren heißt, das Notwendige zu tun, wenn es am schwierigsten ist." - Sir John Templeton.
The Michael Yardney Podcast | Property Investment, Success & Money
Have you ever wondered what makes the greatest investors in the world not just wealthy, but truly fulfilled and happy? Well, today, we're going to explore that question with someone who's had the unique opportunity to sit down with the legends of the investing world – best selling author, William Green, the author of Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life, William has spent decades interviewing and learning directly from icons like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Sir John Templeton. But what's fascinating about William's work is that it's not just about investing. It's about uncovering the principles and mindsets that can lead to a richer life—financially, yes, but also emotionally and intellectually. Our chat emphasised that true wealth isn't just about financial success; it also involves achieving a balanced and fulfilling life. Takeaways The power of compounding is essential for wealth creation. Investing requires a mindset focused on continuous learning. Humility is crucial in avoiding overconfidence in investing. Delayed gratification is key to long-term success. Wealth is not just about money; it's about life balance. Kindness can be a competitive advantage in business. Learning from adversity is vital for growth. Cloning successful strategies can lead to better outcomes. Navigating uncertainty requires preparation and humility. True wealth includes health, relationships, and contribution. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Richer, Wiser, Happier 03:58 William Green's Journey to Investing 07:52 Lessons from Legendary Investors 13:26 Mindset of Successful Investors 16:10 Balancing Wealth and Life 20:55 Avoiding Stupidity in Investing 22:51 Understanding Market Complacency and Risk 24:58 The Art of Delayed Gratification in Investing 27:23 The Power of Compounding in Wealth and Wisdom 30:00 Compounding Goodwill and Building Relationships 32:10 Navigating Uncertainty in Investing 36:17 The Role of Humility and Luck in Success 39:16 The Importance of Sharing and Giving Back 42:34 Simple Ideas for a Richer, Happier Life 46:17 The Power of Peer Groups in Investing 49:23 The Ant Philosophy: Never Quit Links and Resources: Michael Yardney Get the team at Metropole to help build your personal Strategic Property Plan Click here and have a chat with us William Green - Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life Join us at Wealth Retreat - Australia's Premier Wealth Retreat for Elite Investors and Business People www.WealthRetreat.com.au Get a bundle of free reports and eBooks – www.PodcastBonus.com.au Also, please subscribe to my new podcast Demographics Decoded with Simon Kuestenmacher – just look for Demographics Decoded wherever you are listening to this podcast and subscribe so each week we can unveil the trends shaping your future. Shownotes plus more here: Richer, Wiser, Happier – How the world's greatest investors win in markets and life
What if your greatest advantage in business was how you think about the future?In this episode, I explore Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green, unpacking seven actionable lessons inspired by legendary investors like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Sir John Templeton. These lessons go beyond money—they're about mastering long-term thinking, simplifying complexity, and building resilience to thrive in uncertainty.William Green, a journalist with decades of experience interviewing investing icons, distills their timeless principles into strategies for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone looking to improve their decision-making.As an entrepreneur and investor, I've applied these lessons to my journey. From the power of focus to managing emotions and embracing change, this episode equips you with tools to sharpen your priorities, think strategically, and navigate today's ever-changing landscape.Key Takeaways:This episode covers seven transformative lessons, including:Say No to Almost Everything: Focus on what truly matters and eliminate distractions.The Willingness to Be Lonely: Step away from the herd to achieve extraordinary gains.Resilience Is the Ultimate Strength: Prepare for downturns and thrive through tough times.Beware of Emotions and Ignorance: Manage emotional reactions and make informed decisions.Think Long-Term and Embrace Change: Play the long game to build lasting success.Simplicity Is Strength: Distill complexity into clarity for impact and growth.Success Is Built on Habits and Incremental Progress: Double down on what works and refine continuously.While this episode highlights actionable takeaways, Richer, Wiser, Happier dives even deeper, offering stories and frameworks that can transform your approach to business and life.Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction: Why This Episode Matters01:14 - The Book's Relevance for Entrepreneurs and Investors02:36 - Author Spotlight: William Green's Unique Perspective03:35 - Book Overview: Lessons Beyond Investing05:17 - Key Takeaway 1: Say No to Almost Everything10:39 - Key Takeaway 2: The Willingness to Be Lonely15:12 - Key Takeaway 3: Resilience Is the Ultimate Strength20:56 - Key Takeaway 4: Beware of Emotions and Ignorance25:41 - Key Takeaway 5: Think Long-Term and Embrace Change30:11 - Key Takeaway 6: Simplicity Is Strength34:59 - Key Takeaway 7: Success Is Built on Habits and Incremental Progress39:17 - Closing Insights and Final ReflectionsWhy Listen:Master Resilience and Focus: Build a mindset that thrives during challenges.Think Like a Legend: Apply strategies from iconic investors to your goals.Navigate Uncertainty: Gain tools to adapt and succeed in volatile environments.Actionable Insights: Practical coaching questions to reflect and grow immediately.If these lessons resonate, I encourage you to explore Richer, Wiser, Happier in full. It's not just a book—it's a guide to thinking better, deciding smarter, and building a resilient path to success.[Link to Amazon]Thank you for tuning in! Don't forget to subscribe for more episodes where we uncover wisdom from the brightest minds in investing, entrepreneurship, and leadershSend us a textSupport the showJoin the Podcast Newsletter: Link
Today's +1 features wisdom from Peter Attia, Thomas À Kempis, Bishop Desmond Tutu, John F. Kennedy and Sir John Templeton. Heroic: https://heroic.us ← "Heroic is the best self-development platform in the world." — John Mackey, co-founder & former CEO of Whole Foods Market
In Episode 106 of the Diary of a UK Stock Investor Podcast this week:- (00:00) Show Start (04:46) A review of the wider markets over September (10:45) A look at Greggs plc and their Q3 financials update (14:24) My analysis on Aston Martin Lagonda plc over the last 5 years (20:26) A deeper look at JD Wetherspoons financials amid expectations of profit growth (25:14) Wisdom from Sir John Templeton (32:20) How Chris's personal stock portfolio lost £1,208.90 over the last month Diary of a UK Stock Investor Podcast is a show for everyday long-term retail investors, hosted by Chris Chillingworth. The podcast is unique in that it serves as a place for Chris to reflect on the highs and lows of long-term UK stock investing, as well as sharing detailed updates on how his own portfolio is growing. With new episodes every Thursday, and a detailed update on his quest to reach £1,024,867 in portfolio value by 2043, episodes often discuss investing education, strategy, mindset, ideas and even stock picks and analysis. The show, which now has an active following of over 4000 downloads a month, is curated by Chris Chillingworth, a UK investor for over a decade whose stockpicks have achieved a 15.9% annual average return between Jan 2014 - Jan 2024. Email Chris at the show on chris@chrischillingworth.com Checkout the website https://chrischillingworth.com
Summary: In this episode of The Runway Decade Podcast, Bill and Pete Bush of Horizon Financial Group and authors of the book The Runway Decade, discuss the various strategies and financial vehicles available to help you achieve your retirement goals. They dive into the importance of planning for a potentially lengthy retirement, managing risk versus volatility, and the significance of having the right tools to ensure financial success. Key Topics Discussed: [00:00] Planning for Retirement: Funding Your Desired Lifestyle Understanding where you are now and where you want to go. The importance of having a clear vision for your retirement lifestyle. How to fund your retirement goals with discretionary cash and investments. [03:04] Understanding Risk and Volatility in Investing Clarification of the difference between market risk and volatility. The importance of staying invested in equities to combat inflation. Reference to Sir John Templeton's quote on market behavior. [05:22] Investing in Large Companies as an Inflation Hedge Discussion on how big companies and the S&P 500 play a role in long-term growth. The impact of inflation on purchasing power and the importance of investing in equities. [07:46] Avoiding Common Investment Mistakes Discussion on different financial products like annuities, bonds, and equities. Avoiding common investment mistakes, particularly in tax planning. [09:42] The Importance of Personalized Financial Advice The significance of working with a financial advisor who can provide personalized guidance. Avoiding the "one-size-fits-all" approach to retirement planning. [17:30] Building a Diverse Portfolio with Different Investment Tools The importance of having a diversified investment strategy. Matching the right financial tools with your retirement goals and the role of various investment vehicles. Quote of the Episode: "Among the most dangerous words in investing are, 'It's different this time.'" Closing Remarks: Reminder: Your retirement plan should be as unique as you are. The right tools and strategies will vary based on individual circumstances. Next Steps: Consider consulting with a financial advisor who can help you navigate your specific retirement journey with a tailored approach. Resources Mentioned: www.runwaydecade.com www.horizonfg.com
Dr. Frank Wilczek is the newly announced recipient of the 2022 Templeton Prize, which, valued at over $1.4 million, is one of the world's largest annual individual awards. Dr. Wilczek is celebrated for his investigations into the fundamental laws of nature that have transformed our understanding of the forces that govern our universe. In this video, Dr. Wilczek explores the question, ‘does the world embody beautiful ideas?' through science and humankind's relationship to (and love for) symmetry. "We can look at the record of what people have found beautiful, what they were hoping for in their understanding of the world with what the remarkable understanding of the world we've achieved in recent years looks like. And we can therefore frame a meaningful discussion and a meaningful question, a meaningful meditation, on the issue.” The Templeton Prize was established by the late global investor and philanthropist Sir John Templeton. It is given to honor those who harness the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind's place and purpose within it. -------------------------------------------------------------- About Frank Wilczek: Frank Wilczek is an American theoretical physicist, mathematician and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Wilczek, along with David Gross and H. David Politzer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Future of Life Institute. His new book is titled A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About The Well Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life's biggest questions, and that's why they're the questions occupying the world's brightest minds. So what do they think? How is the power of science advancing understanding? How are philosophers and theologians tackling these fascinating questions? Let's dive into The Well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Retirement Lifestyle Show with Roshan Loungani, Erik Olson & Adrian Nicholson
Summary In this episode of the Retirement Lifestyle Show, Roshan and Adrian discuss the stages of a bull market. They reference a quote by Sir John Templeton that describes the stages as born on pessimism, growing on skepticism, maturing on optimism, and dying on euphoria. They break down each stage and discuss the characteristics and trends associated with them. After analyzing the current market conditions, they conclude that we are currently in the optimism stage. They emphasize the importance of understanding the stage of the bull market to make informed investment decisions. Keywords retirement, lifestyle, show, bull market, stages, pessimism, skepticism, optimism, euphoria, market conditions, investment decisions, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, stocks, bonds, cash, markets, economy, Takeaways Bull markets go through stages: born on pessimism, growing on skepticism, maturing on optimism, and dying on euphoria. Understanding the stage of the bull market can help make informed investment decisions. Investors should be cautious of the potential risks associated with the euphoria stage, such as rapid price increases and market melt-ups. Sound Bites "Bull markets are born on pessimism, growing on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria." Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Topic Overview 02:11 Breaking Down the Stages: Pessimism 05:29 The Skepticism Stage 09:26 The Optimism Stage 11:38 The Euphoria Stage 27:44 Final Thoughts and Conclusion Follow Us At: Website: https://retirementlifestyleshow.com/ https://www.retirewithroshan.com https://youtu.be/hKVzI87v0tA https://twitter.com/RoshanLoungani https://www.linkedin.com/in/roshanloungani/ https://www.facebook.com/retirewithroshan/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/financialerik/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-nicholson-74b82b13b/ #retirementlifestylepodcast #fire #podcast #FI #Retire #retirewithroshan #retirement #investing All opinions expressed by podcast hosts and guests are solely their own. While based on information they believe is reliable, neither Arete Wealth nor its affiliates warrant its completeness or accuracy, nor do their opinions reflect the opinion of Arete Wealth. This podcast is for general informational purposes only and should not be regarded as specific advice or recommendations for any individual. Before making any decisions, consult a professionals.
Explore influential quotes and maxims from the investing and business world. This includes from: Warren Buffett, Mark Twain, Robert Kiyosaki, Albert Einstein, Dan Sullivan, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Suze Orman, and yours truly, Keith Weinhold. “Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.” -Mark Twain “Given a 10% chance of a 100x payoff, you should take that bet every time.” -Jeff Bezos “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” -Warren Buffett “Don't live below your means; expand your means.” -Rich Dad “The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.” -Andrew Carnegie “Savers are losers. Debtors are winners.” -Robert Kiyosaki Resources mentioned: For access to properties or free help with a GRE Investment Coach, start here: GREmarketplace.com Get mortgage loans for investment property: RidgeLendingGroup.com or call 855-74-RIDGE or e-mail: info@RidgeLendingGroup.com Invest with Freedom Family Investments. You get paid first: Text FAMILY to 66866 For advertising inquiries, visit: GetRichEducation.com/ad Will you please leave a review for the show? I'd be grateful. Search “how to leave an Apple Podcasts review” GRE Free Investment Coaching: GREmarketplace.com/Coach Best Financial Education: GetRichEducation.com Get our wealth-building newsletter free— text ‘GRE' to 66866 Our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/c/GetRichEducation Follow us on Instagram: @getricheducation Keith's personal Instagram: @keithweinhold Complete episode transcript: Keith Weinhold (00:00:00) - Welcome to GRE. I'm your host, Keith Weinhold. Real estate and other investing involves people from the disappointing to the mesmerizing. People have contributed countless quotes, maxims and aphorisms on investing today. All recite and then we'll discuss dozens of influential ones and what you could learn from this timeless wisdom today on get Rich education. Robert Syslo (00:00:29) - Since 2014, the powerful get Rich education podcast has created more passive income for people than nearly any other show in the world. This show teaches you how to earn strong returns from passive real estate, investing in the best markets without losing your time being a flipper or landlord. Show host Keith Reinhold writes for both Forbes and Rich Dad Advisors and delivers a new show every week. Since 2014, there's been millions of listeners downloads and 188 world nations. He has A-list show guests include top selling personal finance author Robert Kiyosaki. Get Rich education can be heard on every podcast platform, plus has had its own dedicated Apple and Android listener. Phone apps build wealth on the go with the get Rich education podcast. Robert Syslo (00:01:06) - Sign up now for the get Rich education podcast or visit get Rich education.com. Corey Coates (00:01:14) - You're listening to the show that has created more financial freedom than nearly any show in the world. This is get rich education. Keith Weinhold (00:01:30) - Welcome to diary from Ellis Island, New York, to Ellensburg, Washington, and across 188 nations worldwide. I'm Keith Weinhold, and you're listening to get Rich education for the 508th consecutive week. Happy July. It's the first day of the quarter, and it's now the second half of the year. So late last year when you got takeaways from our goals episode here, I hope that you're still applying them today. We're doing something different on this show. For most episodes. I divulge a lot of my best guidance. Some even quote that material. But why don't I acknowledge others great quotes maxims in aphorisms along with some of my own? And then I'll tell you what you can learn from them. So yes, today it's about axioms, adages, mantras and quotes, maxims and aphorisms. Some of these you've heard, others you probably haven't. Keith Weinhold (00:02:28) - The first one is the only place you get money is from other people. Yeah. Isn't that so solidly true? You've never received any money in your life from yourself, unless you try to counterfeit it and give it to yourself. It's always been from other people. When you realize that the only place that you do get money is from others, you realize the value of relationships and connectivity. The next one comes from the brilliant entrepreneurial coach Dan Sullivan. You are 100% disciplined to your set of habits. Gosh, this is a terrific reminder about the importance of how you have to often uncomfortably apply something new in order to up your skill set up your game. If you keep getting distracted, well, then that's a habit, and then you'll soon become disciplined to the habit of distraction. The next two go together, and they're about market investing. Nobody is more bearish than a sold out bull. And the other is bears make headlines. Bulls make money. Really the lesson there is that they're both reminders that it's better to stay invested rather than on the sidelines. Keith Weinhold (00:03:53) - The next two are related to each other as well. Albert Einstein said, strive not to be a person of success, but rather to be a person of value. And then similarly, a more modern day spin on that. Tony Hsieh, the late CEO of Zappos. He said, Chase the vision, not the money and the money will end up following you. And the lesson here is, well, we'd all like more money, but if you focus on the money first, well then it doesn't want to follow you. You need to provide value and build the vision first, and then the money will follow and you know, to me, it's kind of like getting the girl if you act too interested in her and you get too aggressive, it's a turnoff. But if you quietly demonstrate that you're a person of value, or subtly suggest somehow in a way that their life could be improved by having a relationship with you or being around you, then they're more likely to follow. And yes, I'm fully aware that this is a heterosexual male analogy, and I use it because that is what I am. Keith Weinhold (00:04:58) - So if you're something else, I'm sure you can follow along with that. The next quote is from Susie Kasam. Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. Gosh, isn't this so on point? It's about overcoming the fear in just trying. And then if you know that you've lived a life of trying, you're going to have fewer regrets. Thomas Edison yes, the light bulb guy in the co-founder of General Electric, he said the value of an idea lies in the using of it. Oh, yeah, that's a great reminder that knowledge isn't really power. It's knowledge plus action that creates power because an idea that remains idle doesn't do anyone any good. Hey, we're just getting started talking about investing in real estate quotes today here on episode 508 of get Rich education. And, you know, remarkably, these maxims and catchphrases, they're usually just 1 or 2 sentences, but yet they are so often packed with the wisdom such that these takeaways and lessons are like your three favorite ones today. They can change the trajectory of your entire life. Keith Weinhold (00:06:20) - The next quote is one that I have said carefully bought real estate has the best risk adjusted return in. The world. And I don't need to explain that because we talk about that in some form or another on the show many weeks. Albert Schweitzer said success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you're doing, you will be successful. Yeah, I'd say that one is mostly true. Just mostly, though, there's no attribution here. On this next one, you might have heard the aphorism money is a terrible master, but an excellent servant. Yeah. Now, I've heard that one for a long time, and it took me a while to figure out what it really meant. And here's my take on that. If you make money, the master will. Then you'll, like, do almost anything. You'll trade your time for money. You'll sell your time for dollars instead. If you invest passively and it creates leveraged equity and income streams, oh, then money serves you. Keith Weinhold (00:07:28) - It's no longer the master. That's what that means to me here in a real estate investor context. And, you know, it really underscores the importance of making money work for you. And is a follow up to last week's show. Whose money are we talking about here? Whose is it? It's focusing on getting other people's money to work for you, not just your own. Now, the next one is a quote that I've said on the show before, quite a while ago, though. And come on now, what would an episode about quotes, maxims and aphorisms be without some contribution from Mark Twain? Here Twain said, why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. that's just so, so good in business and in so many facets of your life, constantly playing it safe is the riskiest thing that you can actually do. Because a risk averse investor places a ceiling on his or her potential in a risk averse person imposes an upper limit on their very legacy. In fact, episode 275 of the get Rich education podcast is named Go Out on Limb precisely because of this Twain quote. Keith Weinhold (00:08:45) - So listen to that episode if you want to hear a whole lot more about that. It's actually one of Twain's lesser known quotes, but perhaps his best one. The next one comes from famous value investor Benjamin Graham. He said the individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. Okay, so what's the difference there? A speculator takes big risks in hopes of making large quick gains. Conversely, an investor focuses on risk appropriate strategies to pursue longer term goals, which is really consistent with being a prudent, disciplined real estate investor. Presidential advisor Bernard Baruch contributed this to the investing world. Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars. yes. Tried to time the market. It might be tempting, but it rarely works because no one really knows when the market has reached its top or its bottom. All you can really hope to do is buy lower and sell higher. But you're never going to buy at the trough and sell at the peak. Keith Weinhold (00:10:00) - And even buying lower and selling higher is harder to do than it sounds, even though everyone knows that's what they're supposed to do. Albert Einstein is back here, he said. Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn't pays it. And as you've learned here on the show on previous episodes, compound interest. It does work arithmetically, but not in real life would apply to the stock market. Of course. My quote contribution to the investing world on this is compound interest is weak. Compound leverage is powerful. I broke that down just last week on the show, so I won't explain that again. Now, really, a central mantra in GR principle is don't live below your means, grow your means. But I must tell you, I can't really take credit for coining that particular one because from the rich dad world, the quote is don't live below your means, expand your means. But I did hear that from them first, and though it can't be certain, I think it was Sharon letter that coined that one. Keith Weinhold (00:11:13) - A lot of people don't know this, but she was the original co-author of the book. Rich dad, Poor Dad with Robert Kiyosaki. And Sharon has been here on the show before, and if I have her back, I will ask her if she is the one that coined that. Don't live below your means. Expand. Your means. But yeah, I mean, what this quote really means is, in this one finite life that you have here on Earth, why in the world would you not only choose to live below your means, but actually take time and effort learning how to do a better job of living below your means when it just makes you miserable after a while, when instead you could use those same efforts to grow your means and you can only cut down so far. And there's an unlimited ceiling on the upside. And now there is one caveat here. I understand that if you're just getting on your feet, well, then living below your means might be a necessity for you in the short term. Keith Weinhold (00:12:08) - And what's an example of living below your means? It's eating junk food because it's cheap and filling, expanding your means. That might be doing something like learning how to do a cost segregation to accelerate your depreciation. Write off on your 20 unit apartment building. But you know, even if you're in hardship, I still like live within your means more than the scarcity minded guidance of live below your means. Next is a terrific one, and it really reinforces the last quote a rich man digs for gold. A poor man is concerned with the cost of a shovel. Oh yeah, that's so good. And I don't know who to attribute that to. It's about growing your means and taking on and actually embracing calculated risks. Not every risk, calculated risk. And you can also live that regret free life this way. In fact, episode 91 of this show is called A Rich Man Digs for gold. So you can get more inspiration for that from that episode. Okay, this one comes from the commodities world where there are notoriously volatile prices. Keith Weinhold (00:13:18) - How do you make a million? You start with 2 million. now, this next one is one that I don't really agree with that much. You really heard this a lot the last few years. It applies when you have a mortgage on a property, and that is the house is the liability and the debt is the asset. I know people are trying to be crafty. People kind of use this pithy quote when they're discussing how those that locked in at those artificially low mortgage rates years ago considered the debt so good that it's an asset. It's like, yeah, I know what you're saying. And I love good real estate debt and leverage and all that, of course. But really, for you, truly, then if the House is a liability and the debt is an asset like you're saying, then give away the house to someone else. If it's such a liability, and keep the debt to pay off yourself if it's really such an asset. A little humorous here. Next, Forbes magazine said, how do you make a million marry a millionaire? Or better yet, divorce one then more? Real estate ish is Jack Miller's quote how do you become a millionaire? Well, you borrow $1 million and you pay it off. Keith Weinhold (00:14:31) - And I think we can all relate to that here at GRE. Better yet, borrow $1 million and don't pay it off yourself. Have tenants and inflation pay it down for you. And you know, inflation is getting to be a problem for any of these, like century old classic quotes that have the word millionaire in them. Because having a net worth of a million that actually used to mean you were wealthy, and now it just means you're not poor, but you might even be below middle class. Now, you probably heard of some of these next ones, but let's talk about what they mean. Warren Buffett said the stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient. And then Benjamin Franklin said an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. I mean, yeah, that's pretty on point stuff there when it comes to investing. Nothing will pay off more than educating yourself. So do some research before you jump in. And you've almost certainly heard this next one from Warren Buffett. Speaker 4 (00:15:28) - You want to be greedy when others are fearful, and you want to be fearful when others are greedy. Keith Weinhold (00:15:32) - That is, be prepared to invest in a down market and to get out in a soaring market. As per the philosophy of Warren Buffett, it's far too easy for investors to lose perspective when something big goes wrong. A lot of people panic and sell their investments. And looking at history. The markets recovered from the 2008 financial crisis. They recover from the dotcom crash. They even recover from the Great Depression, although it took a long time. So they're probably going to get through whatever comes next as well, if you really follow that through what Buffett said there. Well, then at a time like this now, I mean, you could be looking at shedding stocks as they continue to approach and break all time highs. Carlos Slim, hello said with a good perspective on history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present and thus a clear vision of the future. Sure. Okay, that quote like that probably didn't sound very snappy and it's really simple, but he's telling us that if you want to know the future, check on the past. Keith Weinhold (00:16:39) - Not always, but often. It will tell you the future directory, or at least that trajectories range. And this is similar to how I often say take history over hunches, like when you're applying economics to real estate investing. Now this next guy has been a controversial figure, but George Soros said it's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong. Okay, I think that quote means that too many investors become almost obsessed with being right, even when the gains are small, winning big, and cutting your losses when you're wrong. They are more important than being right. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said given a 10% chance of a 100 times payoff, you should take that bet every time. All right. Now, that's rather applicable to the high flying risk of, say, investing in startup companies. We'll see. Bezos himself, he took a lot of those bets, a 10% chance at a 100 X payoff. And that is exactly why he's one of the richest people in the world. Keith Weinhold (00:17:49) - Now, if you haven't heard of John Bogle before, you should know who he is. He co-founded the Vanguard Group, and he's credited with popularizing the very concept of the index fund. I mean, Bogle transformed the entire investment management industry. John Bogle said, don't look for the needle in the haystack. Just buy the haystack. Okay? If it seems too hard to say, find the next Amazon. Well, John Bogle came up with the only sure way to get in on the action. By buying an index fund, investors can put a little bit of money into every stock, and that way they never miss out on the stock market's biggest winners. They're only going to have a small part. And what that means to a real estate investor is, say, rather than buying a single property in a really shabby neighborhood, that neighborhood will drag down your one property. So to apply boggles by the whole haystack quote. What you would do then is raise money to buy the entire block, or even the entire neighborhood and fix it up, therefore raising the values of all of the properties. Keith Weinhold (00:18:55) - Back to Warren Buffett. He had this analogy about the high jump event from track and field. He said, I don't look to jump over seven foot bars. I look around for one foot bars that I can step over. Yeah. All right. I mean, investors often do make things too hard on themselves. The value stocks that Buffett prefers, they frequently outperform the market, making success easier. Supposedly sophisticated strategies like short selling. A lot of times they lose money in the long run. So profiting from those is more difficult. Now, you might have heard the quote, and it's from Philip Fisher. He said the stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything but the value of nothing. Yeah. I mean, that's really another testament to the fact that investing without an education and research that's ultimately going to lead to pretty regrettable investment decisions. Research is a lot more than just listening to the popular opinion out there, because people often just then invest on hype or momentum without understanding things like a company's fundamentals or what value they create for society, or being attentive to price to earnings ratios. Keith Weinhold (00:20:08) - Even Robert Arnott said in investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable. You know, that's pretty on point at times. You have to step out of your comfort zone to realize any big gains. Know the boundaries of your comfort zone. Practice stepping out of it in small doses. As much as you need to know the market, you need to know yourself too. Can you handle staying in when everyone else is jumping out, or do you have the guts to get out during the biggest rally of the century? You've got to have the stomach to be contrarian and see it through. Robert Allen said. How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case. That's the end of what Robert G. Allen said. Yeah, though inflation could cut out the millionaires part. Yeah I mean point well taken. No one builds wealth through a savings account. Now a savings account might be the right place for your emergency fund. It has a role, but it's not a wealth builder. Keith Weinhold (00:21:10) - I mean, since we left the gold standard back in 1971, so many dollars get printed most years that savers become losers. Which, hey, that does bring us to Robert Kiyosaki. He's been a guest on the show here with us for times now, one of our most frequent guests ever. Here he is. The risks at Port Arthur. And you probably know what I'm going to say. He is, he said. Savers or losers? Debtors or winners of something that your parents probably would never want to know that you subscribed to your grandparents, especially. Yes, he is one of the kings of iconoclastic finance quotes. And as you know, I've got some contributions to that realm myself. But what Kiyosaki is saying is if you save 100 K under a mattress and inflation is 5%, well, now after a year you've only got 95 K in purchasing power. So therefore get out of dollars and get them invested. Even better than if you can get debt tied to a cash flowing leveraged asset. In fact, episode 212 of this very show is named Savers are Losers. Keith Weinhold (00:22:18) - Debtors are winners. So I go deep on that theme there. We've got more as we look at it and break down some of the great real estate investing quotes, maxims and aphorisms. They generally get more real estate ish as we go here, including ones that you haven't heard before and dropping, quote, bombs here that absolutely have to be enunciated and brought to light ahead. A group of Real Estate quotes episode. Hey, learn more about what we do here to get rich education comm get rich education.com. And do you have friends or family that are into investing or real estate? I love it when you hit the share button on your pod catching device or whatever platform you're listening on. Everything that we do here is free and the share button really helps the show. Be sure to follow or subscribe yourself if you haven't done that more. Straight ahead. 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Another one for Mark Twain here by land. They're not making it any more. You probably heard one or both of those. And yeah, Twain's time predated that of those islands that are built in Dubai. But Twain's point is still well taken. There is an inherent scarcity in land. Louis Glickman drove the point home about real estate investing when he simply said, the best investment on Earth is Earth. A Hebrew proverb goes as far as saying he is not a fool man who does not own a piece of land. Keith Weinhold (00:26:18) - Wow, that's pretty profound right there. And if you're a female listener, yes, many of these timeless quotes from yesteryear harken back to a period when all of the landowners were men. President Franklin D Roosevelt, he has a real estate quote that you probably heard, but let's see what I think about it. Let's talk about it. Here it is. Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away, purchased with common sense, paid for in full and managed with reasonable care. It is about the safest investment in the world. That's from FDR. That's pretty good. I just don't know about the paid in full part because you lost your leverage. FDR, Johnny Isakson, a US senator, said, in the real estate business, you learn more about people and you learn more about community issues. You learn more about life. You learn more about the impact of government, probably more than any other profession that I know of. And that's good, really on point stuff there. Keith Weinhold (00:27:23) - If you're a direct real estate investor like we are here, you really learn those things. If you're in, say, a REIT, well, you're not going to be exposed to that type of knowledge in experiences. Hazrat Ali Khan is a spiritualist and he said, some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful. Yeah, that's some mystical motivation for the house flipper or the value add real estate syndicator right there, Political economist John Stuart Mill, he said something you've probably heard before. Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. Oh, yes, you can have a real estate quotes episode without that classic one. Although rather than landlords growing rich in their sleep, the phrase real estate investors is likely more accurate. Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait. You've surely heard that one. You might not know that it was actor Will Rogers with that particular attribution, entrepreneur Marshall Field said buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy, billionaire John Paulson said. Keith Weinhold (00:28:45) - I think buying a home is the best investment any individual can make. That's what Paulson said. let's give Paulson the benefit of the doubt here. Although Robert Kiyosaki famously said that a house is not an asset because an asset puts money in your pocket and your home takes money out of your pocket, well, a home is something that you get to live in, build family memories in, and you do get some leverage if you keep debt on your own home. So maybe that's more of what's behind John Paulson's maxim there. Notable entrepreneur Jesse Jones. He said I have always liked real estate, farmland, pasture land, timberland and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like the good Earth, which is the foundation of all our wealth. Business mogul Tamir Sapir said if you're not going to put your money in real estate, where else? Yeah, I guess that's a good question. Anthony hit real estate professional. He said to be successful in real estate, you must always inconsistently put your client's best interests first. Keith Weinhold (00:30:00) - When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations. Yeah, I think he's talking about being a team player there. And if you're a real estate agent, it's about putting your client's needs over yours. If it's a landlord, perhaps then you're thinking about putting your tenants first and meeting their needs so that they stay in your property longer. Here's a quote that I've got to say I don't understand. It's from real estate mogul and shark tank shark Barbara Corcoran. She says a funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back like gangbusters. I don't really know what that means, and I don't know what a gangbuster is yet. I see that quote all over the place. I can't explain why that would be popular. I don't get it at all now, novelist Anthony Trollope said it is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. Entrepreneur Armstrong Williams is here with this gem. Now one thing I tell everyone is to learn about real estate. Keith Weinhold (00:31:12) - Repeat after me. Real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values in the least risk. Yeah, that's a real motivator of a quote. As long as one knows what they're doing and buys, right? All of that could very well be true from Armstrong Williams. It was none other than John de Rockefeller that said the major fortunes in America have been made in land. Yeah, it's just really plain and simple there. John Jacob Astor, he got specific and more strategic here. This is Astor. He said, buy on the fringe and wait by land near a growing city. Buy real estate when other people want to sell and hold what you buy. I mean, yeah, that's pretty much an all timer right there from Astor. Winston Churchill said land monopoly is not only monopoly, it is by far the greatest of monopolies. It is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly. Yeah, interesting from Churchill. And there's a good chance that you haven't heard that one before. Keith Weinhold (00:32:26) - Perhaps. So say, for example, if one owns real estate on all four corners of a busy street intersection, then that quote applies. It's like you've got a monopoly on a popular intersection. Russell Sage said. This real estate is an imperishable asset, ever increasing in value. It is the most solid security that human ingenuity has devised. It is the basis of all security and about the only indestructible security. That's from Russell Sage. And, you know, you know, something here is we've got lots of real estate specific quotes in this segment is that it is rare to nonexistent to see any negative quotes about real estate, about anyone saying anything bad about it. It's all positive stuff. Waxing eloquent about real estate. And there are a lot of reasons to do that. But not every real estate moment is great. Maybe this is all because nothing quotable is said when you find out that one of your tenants is a drug dealer. Well. Finance expert Susie Orman says this owning a home is a keystone of wealth, both financial affluence and emotional security. Keith Weinhold (00:33:46) - Yeah, a lot like an earlier quote. A home is the only investment that you get the benefit of living in. Peter Lynch said. No, what you own and why you own it. I mean, that is short, sweet and it's just a really good reminder to you. Do you now own any properties that you would not buy again? And if you wouldn't buy it again, then should you consider selling it now? Not FDR, but Theodore Roosevelt. He said every person who invests. In well selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community, adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent for real estate is the basis of wealth. That's Theodore Roosevelt. Yeah. He reiterates that you want to own most of your property in growing places, something that really hasn't changed over all this time. Coke Odyssey contributes to this. The house he looked at today and wanted to think about until tomorrow, maybe the same house someone looked at yesterday and will buy today. Oh, gosh, that's true. Keith Weinhold (00:34:58) - I think that everyone has the story of the one that got away. Margaret Mitchell said the land is the only thing worth working for. Worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts. Yeah. Wow. Some real passion there from Margaret. Sir John Templeton said the four most dangerous words in investing are. It's different this time. Yeah. I think what Templeton is advising is to follow market trends in history. Don't speculate that this particular time will be any different. Warren Buffett said wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing. Yeah, that insight from Buffett. That's pretty applicable when you understand that you've got to get good in a niche and then get rich in that niche, meaning being narrow. Why diversification? That's likely better when you're just beginning and you don't know much, but then you want to get niche in your big earning years. And then perhaps when you're older, you get diversified once again because you're more interested in just protecting what you have. Keith Weinhold (00:36:15) - Robert Kiyosaki said it's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for. Now there's something with tax efficiencies and more in that Kiyosaki quote. My friend Dave Zook, billionaire dollar syndicator and frequent guest on this show, he said, you can be conventional or you can be wealthy. Pick one. Oh yeah, I love that from Dave. Because if you do what everyone else does, you'll only get what everyone else got. And I've contributed some material here over 508 episodes of this show. Although I won't claim the eminence of some of the other luminaries of the past few centuries discussed today. I've been known to say these. You do care about what others think. That's your reputation. I've been known to say the scarcity mentality is abundant and the abundance mentality is scarce. And some say that in real estate, I was the first one to point out back in 2015 that real estate pays five ways. Another that I have is a critique of delayed gratification. Keith Weinhold (00:37:31) - Now, some delayed gratification is okay early on in your life, but I've said too much delayed gratification becomes denied gratification. Here on Earth, you live just one life. Hey. And the other day, an entrepreneurial friend. I don't know. He seemed to think that I have the right life balance. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but here's what I told him. And I think he said this because he often sees me out to exercising and things. I told him I give my best to exercise. Business only gets left over time. That's because exercise is hard and making money is easy. Yeah, there it is. That's my take on that. And that's it for today. I hope that you got some learning, some perspective, a few laughs and that some thought was spurred inside your mind in order to give you at least one big, rich novel takeaway here. And it's probably best for you to refer back to this episode of quotes, maxims, and aphorisms. At times when you're feeling shaky about your investment decision making, or just other times of uncertainty. Keith Weinhold (00:38:49) - Until next week, I'm your host, Keith Reinhold, and there's something else that I've been known to say. Don't quit your day. Drink. Speaker 6 (00:39:00) - Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. 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Kyle talks to Lauren Templeton about the many investing and life lessons she learned from investing legend Sir John Templeton, how she sets up her daily life to stay disciplined and avoid biases, how to utilize the scientific method for investing purposes, how we can use lessons from history to improve our decision making today, the importance of utilizing multiple evaluation tools to find great investments, sectors that are facing maximal pessimism today that might be the winners of tomorrow, and much, much more! IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 05:56 - Why we should combat “home bias”. 05:56 - Why high savings rates are so important for new opportunities. 05:56 - How savings rates have changed with the times. 05:56 - The hurdles you need to overcome for investing in Japan. 12:06 - The importance of looking at unpopular sectors. 12:24 - What Sir John Templeton thought about quality. 12:24 - Why maximum optimism is a risky place to deploy capital. 12:24 - How Sir John Templeton offset value traps using his strategy. 12:24 - Why you should use multiple evaluation tools in your analysis. 17:38 - How Lauren created her life to stay disciplined. 17:38 - The strengths of lowering how reactive you are. 17:38 - The importance of living a disciplined lifestyle to improve yourself. 21:18 - How to utilize the scientific method in investing. 27:01 - How Lauren has decreased the effects of FOMO. 27:01 - The importance of removing yourself from the crowd. 29:54 - How Lauren has used inversion to help her investing strategy. 34:22 - Why you should look at sectors with bad outlooks. 34:22 - How Lauren fights confirmation bias. 43:10 - How Lauren's investing strategy has altered given the current macro backdrop. 47:07 - The importance of alignment between your daily life and investing philosophy. 47:07 - How Sir John Templeton tinkered with his portfolio while staying true to his core philosophy. 49:11 - Why you should understand maximum pessimism and how it creates opportunities. 49:11 - The historical returns in small caps after having the valuation gap we are seeing today. 49:11 - Why Lauren thinks China is showing maximum pessimism based on her observations at ValueX. 49:11 - Why Lauren sees an opportunity in small caps right now. And so much more! Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, Kyle, and the other community members. Buy Lauren's book, The Templeton Way here. Listen to Lauren's podcast, Investing The Templeton Way here. Subscribe to her newsletter, the Maximum Pessimism Report here. Learn more about the Berkshire Summit by clicking here or emailing Clay at clay@theinvestorspodcast.com. Follow Kyle on Twitter and LinkedIn. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. NEW TO THE SHOW? Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River Fidelity NetSuite Toyota TurboTax Wise NerdWallet Linkedin Marketing Solutions Babbel Shopify Fundrise Vacasa HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On today's episode, Clay is joined by Scott Phillips to discuss how to invest during times of max pessimism. Scott is married to and manages money with Lauren Templeton, who is Sir John Templeton's great-niece. Sir John was one of the greatest international investors of the 20th century and the master of finding pockets of the market that were most distressed and offered the highest level of asymmetric returns. Scott Phillips is a Principal and Chief Investment Officer at Templeton and Phillips Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Phillips also serves as a Managing Member to the Templeton and Phillips Partners Fund, LLC. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro. 03:02 - What helped Sir John Templeton think independently and have the courage to stray from the crowd. 10:01 - Sir John's lessons living through the Great Depression. 15:24 - How Scott works to teach his children the values around money that Templeton embodied. 22:20 - The investment lessons that Scott learned from studying the career of Templeton. 35:09 - The three ways to generate excess returns in the markets. 43:48 - How Scott's fund capitalized on the market panic in March 2020. 49:25 - Areas of the market Scott deems to be significantly undervalued. 56:30 - Why US investors should consider diversifying away from the dollar. 56:48 - Scott's current thoughts on investing in China. 01:10:27 - How Scott thinks about shorting the occasional bubble in the market. 01:18:21 - Scott's thoughts on continuing to be optimistic about the future. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Check out Templeton & Phillips Capital Management. Scott's books: Investing the Templeton Way, The Templeton Touch, & Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism. Sir John Templeton's book: The Templeton Plan. Learn more about the Berkshire Summit by clicking here or emailing Clay at clay@theinvestorspodcast.com. Related Episode:TIP585: Concentrated Value Investing w/ Shree Viswanathan or watch the video. Check out all the books mentioned and discussed in our podcast episodes here. NEW TO THE SHOW? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: River AlphaSense Wise NetSuite American Express Business Gold Card Toyota Ka'Chava Babbel Glengoyne Whisky Efani Noble Gold Investments Salesforce Vanta Alto Shopify Masterclass HELP US OUT! Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds, and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Have the rising interest rates affected you? How do these increases affect businesses? In this episode, we emphasize the critical importance of a company's financial health and its ability to navigate the challenges presented by rising interest rates. Through the lens of Apple, we showcase a company with a strong balance sheet and the capacity to seize opportunities, invest in other businesses, and return value to shareholders. By following our investment process, we can focus on high-quality businesses that not only survive during these times, but thrive. Sir John Templeton once stated, "The four most dangerous words in investing are: 'this time it's different.'" Well, we believe this time it truly is different. Here's to wise investing, Brett Pattison and Brian Hunsaker
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Der Templeton Growth Fund war über Jahrzehnte Synonym für langfristigen Vermögensaufbau mit Aktien und erfolgreiches Value-Investing nach Benjamin Graham. Inzwischen steckt der einstige Bestseller-Fonds aber in einer tiefen Krise, allein seit 2017 hinkt er dem MSCI ACWI ETF rund 60 Prozentpunkte hinterher. „This time it's different“, ist man da versucht zu sagen – in Anlehnung an den wohl bekanntesten Ausspruch des Gründervaters Sir John Templeton. Tobias Kramer und Christian W. Röhl checken deshalb mal, ob das, was die 2008 verstorbene Investment-Ikone an Börsen- und Lebensweisheiten hinterlassen hat, ähnlich aus der Zeit gefallen ist wie der Fonds. Dazu ein Blick auf den börsennotierten Vermögensverwalter, der jedes Jahr 1,82% von den rund acht Milliarden Dollar kassiert, die trotz des Performance-Debakels noch immer im Templeton Growth Fund stecken: Franklin Resources, ein Dividenden-Aristokrat mit 32 Anhebungen in Serie.
50th EPISODE! Every conversation with William Green is an adventure, so was today's hour and half where we talk about everything from investing to kindness, spirituality, the pursuit of freedom, and more – His book Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life is a must read for anyone serious about investing, and everyone curious to learn from some of the greatest minds not only about getting richer, but living better lives. William is also a host of The Richer, Wiser, Happier collection of podcast episodes featured on We Study Billionaires, the flagship podcast of The Investor's Podcast Network. Over the last 25 years, William has interviewed many legendary investors—everyone from Sir John Templeton to Charlie Munger, Jack Bogle to Bill Miller. That experience led him to write a landmark book, Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life. In the Richer, Wiser, Happier podcast, William draws on this unparalleled access to the world's most successful investors, so you can listen to—and learn from—the very best. Over the last quarter of a century, he has interviewed many of the world's best investors, exploring in depth the question of what qualities and insights enable them to achieve enduring success. Green has written for many leading publications in the US and Europe. Green has collaborated on several books as a ghostwriter, co-author, or editor. Born and raised in London, Green was educated at Eton College, studied English literature at Oxford University, and received a Master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in New York with his wife, Lauren, and their children, Henry and Madeleine. Today we talk about: Authenticity and Quality. The Praise of Slowness. Contradictory Truths. Contrasting investment strategies of Guy Spier and Mohnish Pabrai. Emotions. When to persist, when to quit. Kindness. Right habits in times of crisis. Return on Life. Spirituality: Pursuit of Freedom Luck and Gratitude ---- Crisis Investing: 100 Essays - My new book. To get regular updates and bonus content, please sign-up for my substack: https://bogumilbaranowski.substack.com/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bogumil_nyc Learn more about Bogumil Baranowski Learn more about Sicart Associates, LLC. NEVER INVESTMENT ADVICE. IMPORTANT: As a reminder, the remarks in this interview represent the views, opinions, and experiences of the participants and are based upon information they believe to be reliable; however, Sicart Associates nor I have independently verified all such remarks. The content of this podcast is for general, informational purposes, and so are the opinions of members of Sicart Associates, a registered investment adviser, and guests of the show. This podcast does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any specific security or financial instruments or provide investment advice or service. Past performance is not indicative of future results. More information on Sicart Associates is available via its Form ADV disclosure documents available adviserinfo.sec.gov --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-billions/message
AI-powered market forecasts with CI Markets: https://completeintel.com/marketsIn this Week Ahead episode, Tony Nash, Michael Belkin, Tracy Shuchart, and Albert Marko discuss various investment opportunities and market trends.Michael emphasizes the importance of sentiment and positioning in the market, predicting a sentiment reversal and a potential liquidation squeeze out of tech stocks and into energy, financials, and China. He also highlights the under-owned nature of the energy sector and suggests investment opportunities in energy stocks, particularly at the point of maximum pessimism.Michael draws parallels to Sir John Templeton's advice on buying at the point of maximum pessimism and selling at the point of maximum optimism. The conversation also touches on the Federal Reserve's interest rate decisions and inflation concerns.Albert agrees with Michael's assessment of tech stocks being overvalued and predicts a potential resurgent US dollar, albeit remaining range-bound. He discusses the impact of a stronger dollar on Europe and emerging markets.Albert also expects a trend of contraction in the money supply for another month or two, followed by an expansion. The discussion further explores potential investment opportunities in China's large-cap sector, driven by efforts to ignite optimism among Chinese investors, while acknowledging the risk of the Taiwan-China conflict.The speakers also touch on the potential for a rally in small caps, driven by rotation and the consensus being long on large-cap tech stocks.Additionally, the episode highlights the impact of the dollar on commodities, particularly crude oil. Albert predicts a range-bound crude oil price between 75 and 85 unless a geopolitical issue arises. Tracy discusses refinery margins and the strength of crack spreads, noting the strengthening diesel prices and the focus on refining diesel for better margins. She also emphasizes the importance of considering fundamentals in commodity prices and highlights the current high demand for oil, surpassing pre-pandemic levels.Lastly, the conversation mentions OPEC's voluntary cuts and their preference for a stable market with a price range of $80 to $90 for Brent crude. The group is seen as cohesive and unlikely to deviate from the cuts. The episode also briefly touches on the impact of Rhine River levels on manufacturing in Northern Europe, noting a recent return to normal levels that will take time to alleviate the backlog of products.Key themes:1. Forget AI. Real Equity Opportunities2. Inflation, Fed & Treasury3. More Crude Supply CutsThis is the 74th episode of The Week Ahead, where experts talk about the week that just happened and what will most likely happen in the coming week.Follow The Week Ahead panel on Twitter:Tony: https://twitter.com/TonyNashNerdMichael: https://twitter.com/BelkinReportAlbert: https://twitter.com/amlivemonTracy: https://twitter.com/chigrlWatch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/qcW7Tl_lT6Q
For some time The Courageous Life has featured conversations with people who are leading the way when it comes to researching, practicing, and teaching about ancient virtues like courage, kindness, empathy, compassion, humility, and love. Together we have explored the intersection between ancient wisdom traditions and modern science; discussing insights, tools, and practices that can be used to help people live well in the reality of our busy everyday experience. Today's guest, Dr. Stephen G. Post, is a trailblazer in this space. He has helped to push so much of this work forward through his leadership in the fields of medicine, positive psychology, and spirituality. As part of his groundbreaking work, Stephen founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, which researches and distributes knowledge on kindness, giving, and spirituality. We'll dive into this and much more in today's episode!In this deep and wide-ranging conversation we explore a variety of highlights from Stephen's pioneering career including:A variety of stories that offer a glimpse into some of the key moments that helped to shape the work he is doing today, including the amazing origin story of how, with the help of Sir John Templeton, he founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love. Why we lose access to compassion and empathy in busy environments, and a simple 3-step process for counteracting this, which he uses with healthcare workers and medical students.Practices to develop our ability to listen more fully and deeply. Highlights from his work on giving - including why How much you give isn't as important as how much kindness you put into the giving.Some of the most intriguing research findings on giving, kindness, and love.The backstory on how the field of positive psychology was founded, and how an evidence-based book of character strengths and virtues came to be.Insights from his work on forgiveness and compassionate caregiving.More about Stephen: Stephen G. Post, PhD is an international speaker, and best selling author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People. He is also a frequent contributor to major magazines and newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine. He has also been interviewed on major broadcasts, including ABC 20/20, Nightline, The Daily Show, John Stossel, “Talk of the Nation,” and The Mehmet Oz Show. He is the founder and director of the Stony Brook Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care and Bioethics. A leader in medicine, research and religion. Visit him online at StephenGPost.com and UnlimitedLoveInstitute.org.Did you find this episode inspiring? Here are other conversations we think you'll love!Dr. James Doty - Into the Magic ShopDr. Daryl Van Tongeren - The Transformative Power of HumilityEnjoying the show? Please rate it on iTunes!Thanks for listening!Support the show
If you've been a long-time listener to the Stories of Impact podcast, you'll expect by now to be surprised by the kinds of studies Templeton World Charity Foundation invests in. TWCF-funded projects are not only ground-breaking — they're often “rule-breaking,” asking challenging questions often left untouched by other funders. Today's story is about one of those cutting-edge scientific studies, one that explores the possibility of a paradigm shift in how educators not only educate students, but each other. The study we hear about in this episode is the kind of research project that Sir John Templeton himself would have enthusiastically embraced, one that sits at the intersection of science and religion, and is designed to tap into curiosity and passion for interdisciplinary and lifelong learning. Meet Dr. Sibel Erduran, a professor of Science Education at the University of Oxford, and the leader of a research project guided by the TWCF mission to explore Big Questions in the Classroom. Her research brings together science educators and religious educators who learn with and from each other. It's a project that aims to break down divides between the space of scientific and religious study, in order to discover what happens when the silos disappear. Dr. Erduran's study explores how argumentation can help students bridge disciplinary divides to achieve deep understanding. Read the transcript of this episode Subscribe to Stories of Impact wherever you listen to podcasts Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube Share your comments, questions and suggestions at info@storiesofimpact.org Supported by Templeton World Charity Foundation
Scott Phillips is a Principal and Chief Investment Officer at Templeton and Phillips Capital Management, LLC. Prior to Templeton and Phillips, Scott operated Cumberland Capital, a firm providing equity research to global and emerging market hedge funds. Before Cumberland, Scott worked as a research analyst at hedge fund management company Green Cay Asset Management, and prior to Green Cay, he was a research associate at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. Scott's other professional activities include serving on the Investment Advisory Sub-Committee and the Finance Committee for the John Templeton Foundation, as well as the Audit Committee and Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Templeton Foundation, Inc. Scott is the author or coauthor of three investment books, including Investing the Templeton Way (McGraw Hill, 2008), Buying at the Point of Maximum Pessimism, and coauthor to the revised edition of The Templeton Touch. Scott received his B.A. from Sewanee: The University of the South. Scott shared his experience of spending time with Sir John Templeton and his first conversation with him. We discussed the concept of maximum pessimism and how it helps in investing, which aligns with Sicart Associates' contrarian approach. Scott emphasized the importance of thrift, frugality, and saving in the value investing mindset, as mentioned in his book "Investing the Templeton Way." We explored Sir John's exit strategy and how he timed his sales to avoid market overheating and bubbles bursting. Scott shared his thoughts on the ideal environment for cultivating the right investor traits. We discussed Sir John's perspective on success, focusing on how his clients' ability to send their children to school or plan for retirement was a measure of his own success, and Scott shared his similar viewpoint. Scott discussed working with his spouse, Lauren, and how they collaborate and invest together, acknowledging that successful duos in the investment profession, especially spouses, are relatively rare. We delved into Sir John's use of history in his investing pursuits and how it helped him be more prepared and less surprised when history repeated itself. The sense of adventure and global travel in Sir John's life was highlighted, from his travels in Europe before WW2 to his global investments. We explored the evolution of an investor's approach, drawing parallels between Sir John Templeton and Warren Buffett, and Scott shared his own continuous evolution as an investor. Scott reflected on the influence of Sir John in his and Lauren's careers and how they emulate his philosophy while also incorporating their unique approach. https://www.templetonandphillips.com/ ---- Crisis Investing: 100 Essays - My new book. To get regular updates and bonus content, please sign-up for my substack: https://bogumilbaranowski.substack.com/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bogumil_nyc Learn more about Bogumil Baranowski Learn more about Sicart Associates, LLC. NEVER INVESTMENT ADVICE. IMPORTANT: As a reminder, the remarks in this interview represent the views, opinions, and experiences of the participants and are based upon information they believe to be reliable; however, Sicart Associates nor I have independently verified all such remarks. The content of this podcast is for general, informational purposes, and so are the opinions of members of Sicart Associates, a registered investment adviser, and guests of the show. This podcast does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any specific security or financial instruments or provide investment advice or service. Past performance is not indicative of future results. More information on Sicart Associates is available via its Form ADV disclosure documents available adviserinfo.sec.gov --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-billions/message
In June of 1998, 25 years ago this month, Rusty and Carol Leonard officially incorporated MinistryWatch. To celebrate that occasion, and all that God has done to keep MinistryWatch alive and thriving over a quarter-century, we have Rusty and Carol on today's podcast to talk about why they decided to found MinistryWatch, and some of the successes and trials they've experienced with MinistryWatch over the years. You'll hear from Rusty and Carol in a bit, and they share some of their biography, so I'll keep my introduction of them short. But you should know that Rusty is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a CFA, which is one of the financial world's highest and most rigorous designations. He was an analyst and portfolio manager for the legendary investor Sir John Templeton before founding Stewardship Partners, which is an investment firm committed to investing according to biblical principles. Carol, who has an accounting background, currently serves on the board of MinistryWatch. Rusty rolled off of the board several years ago, and now has emeritus status. We had this interview via zoom last week. Rusty and Carol spoke to me from their home in eastern Pennsylvania. You can find out more about Rusty's firm, Stewardship Partners, at StewardshipPartners.com As I mentioned at the top of the program, we are celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, and over the course of the next year we'll be rolling out more content and interviews that will help highlight our history and our plans for the future. If you'd like to help make those plans come true, we'd love to have you on our team. One of the things that is unique about MinistryWatch is that we are donor supported. We don't take money from the ministries we cover, and we don't accept advertising on our site. We serve the donors to Christian ministries. We give them the information they need to make informed stewardship decisions. If you're one of those donors who has benefited from our work, would you please consider a donation? It's easy, just go to MinistryWatch.com and hit the DONATE button at the top of the page. The producers for today's program are Rich Roszel and Jeff McIntosh. We get database, editorial, and technical support from Stephen DuBarry, Kim Roberts, and Casey Sudduth. Until next time, may God bless you.
Mr. William Green, famed author of "Richer, Wiser, Happier" and "The Great Minds of Investing", joins Mr. Paul Gray, founder and managing partner of Ironhold Capital Management for an in-depth conversation on the lessons learned from some of the greatest investors in the world. Mr. William Green is a highly respected author renown for his close relationships and high profile interviews with legendary investors such as Charlie Munger, Sir John Templeton, Joel Greenblatt, Howard Marks, Bill Ackman, Seth Klarman, Bill Miller, Tom Russo, Marty Whitman, Bill Nygren, Donald Yacktman, Mohnish Pabrai, Jean-Marie Eveillard, Peter Lynch, Bill Ruane, and Michael Price. During the conversation, Mr. Green distills the many lessons he learned throughout his conversations with these investors. Mr. Green goes into detail describing the attributes that make these individuals great investors. He then describes the habits and virtues they practice personally to become better and more well rounded people. Mr. Green ends the conversation by describing to Mr. Gray how other people can also implement these principles in their own lives both personally and professionally. We hope you enjoy this interview and find as much value as we have. For further information about the author, please kindly see the following below. Richer Wiser Happier Book: https://www.amazon.com/Richer-Wiser-Happier-Greatest-Investors/dp/1501164856/ William Green: https://williamgreenwrites.com/
EPISODE 1530: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to the inspiration behind THE SIBERIAN JOB, John Kleinheinz, on how he got rich in post communist Russia and what he learnt about the value of free markets and democracy John Kleinheinz is the CEO of Kleinheinz Capital Partners, Inc., the investment advisor for the Global Undervalued Securities Fund, a global-macro themed hedge fund which at its peak managed $4 billion. He returned outside capital to investors in 2013 after a successful 20-year career. John continues to manage the Fund, which is active in a variety of areas including Japan, US energy/technology markets and private equity. He is also a lead investor in efforts to develop high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston. After graduating from Stanford in 1984 with a degree in economics, John began his career as an investment banker, working for Nomura Securities in Tokyo and Merrill Lynch in New York and London. Upon moving to Texas in 1993, he was a partner in an investment firm where he managed the Russia Value Fund, one of the earliest funds to invest in Russia and formed at the inception of the Russian stock market following the voucher privatization program in 1994. The Russia Value Fund was backed by several prominent investors, including Sir John Templeton and Robert Strauss, the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia. John remains actively involved at Stanford, serving as Chairman of the Board of Overseers for The Hoover Institution and on the advisory board of SIEPR (Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research). He and his wife Marsha have three children and reside in Fort Worth. They are actively involved in a number of philanthropic activities, including public charter schools, through the Kleinheinz Family Foundation. John's adventures in post-communist Russia is the inspiration behind The Siberia Job (2023) Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode we consider a saying from Sir John Templeton concerning the danger of not paying attention to past results. Albert Einstein also had a saying regarding insanity as being the repetition of inputs expecting different outputs. So while the government continues to run a deficit, provide bailouts and print money, while banks fail and while the common man is bleeding out interest dollars, we should know there's a better way. In the Infinite Banking space R. Nelson Nash encouraged us to exercise reason, logic, imagination and prophecy when considering and implementing his strategies to become our own banker. Therefore, saying “It's different this time” should merit the scrutiny of logic, reason, etc. If you truly want different financial results, become your own banker! If you have any topics you'd like to see covered, if you have any questions concerning this video or another or if you would like to request a webinar meeting to personally discuss how you can practice the Infinite Banking Concept as described in R. Nelson Nash's book Becoming Your Own Banker, please contact us at: https://linktr.ee/durhamtalents Email: durhamtalents@gmail.com Phone: 828-817-4223 All content on this channel is for informational purposes only. Please contact your own Attorney, Financial Planner, Tax Consultant, or other appropriate professional as necessary.
Sir John Templeton eloquently defined a bull market. He said, “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.”
Lauren Templeton is the founder and CEO of Templeton & Phillips Capital Management. Investing runs in Lauren's blood, as she is the great niece of Sir John Templeton. She reflects on their work together, as well as on the impact of her father on Lauren's journey in investing. Lauren also gives some insight into the perks of working with her husband, Scott Phillips.Transcript available here: https://aqfd.docsend.com/view/z5j2t67cqmbnn7ba
The investing industry has been fortunate to have a variety of role models and mentors who have modeled success in all of its forms. Through his book, Richer, Wiser, Happier, William Green discusses some of the world's most successful investors and what qualities and insights enable them to achieve enduring success. In today's episode, we touch on a few of those investors, along with highlighting the impacts that my uncle, Sir John Templeton, made in William's life.Investing the Templeton Way with Lauren Templeton is a podcast that explores the world's most intriguing investment topics from the overseas markets to mastering our own minds. Gather investment wisdom and educate yourself as you listen to interviews with exclusive managers, executives, and entrepreneurs on a wide range of engaging topics.Connect with William GreenRicher, Wiser, Happier The PodcastRicher, Wiser, Happier The BookWilliamgreenwrites.comThe information presented in this podcast or available on the website is not intended as and shall not be construed as financial advice. This podcast is produced for entertainment value. Investing is inherently risky. And I encourage you to seek financial advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.The information presented in this podcast or available on the website is not intended as and shall not be construed as financial advice. This podcast is produced for entertainment value. Investing is inherently risky. And I encourage you to seek financial advice from a professional who is aware of the facts and circumstances of your individual situation.
Lauren C. Templeton is the founder and president of Templeton & Phillips Capital Management, LLC; a value investing boutique located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Ms. Templeton currently serves on the Board of Directors at Fairfax Financial Holdings, the Board of Directors at Fairfax India Holdings Corporation, and the Board of Directors of Canadian Solar. Ms. Templeton is the great-niece of Sir John M. Templeton and serves on the Board of Trustees of the John Templeton Foundation. She is also a current member the Templeton World Charities Foundation and a Trustee of Templeton Religion Trust. Ms. Templeton is the co-author of Investing the Templeton Way: The Market Beating Strategies of Value Investing's Legendary Bargain Hunter. She received a B.A. in Economics from the University of the South. We talk about: 1) Lauren's childhood and upbringing, and growing up around investing 2) Sir John Templeton's optimism, and the concept of maximum pessimism 3) Sir John's respect for thrift, and the importance of saving 4) Making a positive difference in clients' lives 5) The benefits of being a student of history 6) Sir John's worldly views shaped by travel We cover so many stories from Lauren's life, and her memories of Sir John, her great uncle. Stay tuned until the end, when we talk about Berkshire Hathaway and Lauren's recent email exchange with Warren Buffett. Links: Investing the Templeton Way: The Market-Beating Strategies of Value Investing's Legendary Bargain Hunter Templeton & Phillips Capital Management ---- To get regular updates and bonus content, please sign-up for my substack: https://bogumilbaranowski.substack.com/ Learn more about Talking Billions Learn more about Bogumil Baranowski Learn more about Sicart Associates, LLC. Read Money, Life, Family: My Handbook: My complete collection of principles on investing, finding work & life balance, and preserving family wealth. NEVER INVESTMENT ADVICE. IMPORTANT: As a reminder, the remarks in this interview represent the views, opinions, and experiences of the participants and are based upon information they believe to be reliable; however, Sicart Associates nor I have independently verified all such remarks. The content of this podcast is for general, informational purposes, and so are the opinions of members of Sicart Associates, a registered investment adviser, and guests of the show. This podcast does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any specific security or financial instruments or provide investment advice or service. Past performance is not indicative of future results. More information on Sicart Associates is available via its Form ADV disclosure documents available adviserinfo.sec.gov. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/talking-billions/message
Dr Stephen G. Post is Internationally recognized for his work with Alzheimers patients, their families andallied organizations. Stephen G. Post, PhD is an elected Member of the Medical and Scientific AdvisoryBoard of Alzheimers Disease International and one of only three recipients of the AlzheimersAssociation Distinguished Service Award. His first book, The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer's Disease (JohnsHopkins University Press, 2000) was hailed as a “medical classic of the century” by the British Medical Journal.In 2001 he founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love with Sir John Templeton. Post is thefounding director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics a
William Green showcases some of the most valuable insights from four investing superstars who have recently appeared on the Richer, Wiser, Happier podcast: Joel Greenblatt, Bill Miller, Howard Marks, & François Rochon. Here, these famed investors share practical lessons on how to deal with uncertainty & handle the emotional challenges of investing in turbulent times. William adds his own observations, drawing on his conversations with these great investors & with legends like Sir John Templeton, Peter Lynch, & Charlie Munger.IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:00:00 - Intro03:34 - How a disastrous investment taught Joel Greenblatt that anything can happen.10:34 - What Fidelity legend Peter Lynch learned from a shocking setback early in his career. 12:06 - How to protect ourselves from uncertainty, bad luck, & our own analytical mistakes.12:49 - Why Howard Marks warns that you shouldn't push the limits if you want to avoid ruin.14:48 - How Joel Greenblatt deals with mistakes by learning from them, then moving forward.28:08 - How Joel handles the “kick in the stomach” when an investment goes wrong.35:02 - How to succeed by taking advantage of the wild emotional mood swings of the crowd.38:30 - Why stock pickers must learn to value businesses, buy at a discount, & then wait.40:17 - How Bill Miller handles the discomfort of brutal losses during the most turbulent times.43:00 - What Bill advises regular investors to do so they can endure the pain of market mayhem. 44:33 - Why Howard Marks says we need to be honest about our tolerance for risk & loss.46:06 - How the best investors diversify or concentrate in ways that suit their temperament. 50:07 - Why Howard believes that “emotion is the greatest enemy of superior investing.”52:35 - How Sir John Templeton thrived by hunting for bargains in the most-hated markets.1:00:41 - Why Howard Marks thinks he was wrong to be a “knee-jerk skeptic” about Bitcoin.1:03:30 - How to safeguard against our own biases, hubris, & overconfidence.1:08:58 - Why François Rochon is convinced that it's rational to be optimistic about the future.1:10:51 - What history shows about mankind's extraordinary ability to find solutions to its problems.1:21:31 - Why Warren Buffett says that bad news is an investor's best friend.1:23:23 - Why Buffett regards babies being born in America today as “the luckiest crop in history.”Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.BOOKS AND RESOURCESListen to William's interview with Ray Dalio, The Changing World Order - TIP410, or watch the video.Listen to William's interview with Joel Greenblatt, How to Win the Investing Game - RWH003, or watch the video.Listen to William's interview with Bill Miller, Investing Legend Bill Miller on Amazon, Bitcoin, & Buffett - RWH007, or watch the video.Listen to William's interview with Howard Marks, Investing Wisely In An Uncertain World - RWH002, or watch the video.Listen to William's interview with François Rochon, The Best of the Best - RWH016, or watch the video.Berkshire Hathaway's 2015 annual report, featuring Buffett's optimistic view of the future.William Green's book, “Richer, Wiser, Happier” – read the reviews of this book.Follow William Green on Twitter.NEW TO THE SHOW?Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs.Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here.Try our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool.Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services.Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets.Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. 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It's Wednesday, which means we're back with a new installment of our Hypergrowth Investing podcast! Two months ago, despite widespread fear that the sky was actually falling, we were predicting a bullish breakout for stocks in this new year. And we're very happy to see that that call has come to fruition. The S&P 500 is already up 5% year-to-date. The Nasdaq is up nearly 10% – and we're not even a month into 2023. In fact, when it comes to the stock market, we think Sir John Templeton said it best: “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.” We saw severe pessimism in the back half of 2022, and that outlook has even bled over into the new year. So, it's no surprise to us that a new bull market is being born on the back of this pessimistic sentiment. And we believe this bullishness will last. What gives us confidence there? Well, in short, everything. Inflation is crashing, and the economy is remaining resilient. This unique combination sets the stage for a soft economic landing. The Fed can ease on its rate-hiking campaign, allowing for economic reexpansion in the back half of 2023 and beyond. How about valuations? The current spread between earnings and Treasury yields signals a historically discounted market. And as inflation continues to crash, we should see some significant valuation multiple expansion throughout the year. Plus, thanks to the economy's resilience, earnings are coming in better than expected.And don't forget about all the technical indicators we're seeing – S&P's golden cross signal, Breakaway Momentum, Whaley Breadth Thrust, Triple 70 Thrust, a bullish “trifecta.”Everything is telling us to be confident. And everything is saying this bullishness will last. It's time to position yourself for the next 12 months – because gains could be tremendous.Stay up to date with the hottest trends and seize financial freedom now by watching our latest Hypergrowth Investing episode.
Today's episode is a brief one, and takes us back in time to 2000 and the remarks from Sir John Templeton at the Acton Institute's Annual Dinner. It was at this dinner that Templeton was award the inaugural Acton Institute Faith & Freedom Award for his contributions to civil society as “a pioneering philanthropist with wisdom to understand the tremendous role of faith in the course of human history.”Beginning a Wall Street career in 1937, he created some of the world's largest and most successful international investment funds. Templeton, a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA), was known for starting mutual funds' annual meetings with a prayer. Templeton was knighted Sir John by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his many accomplishments. One of these was creating the world's richest award, the $1 million-plus Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities presented annually in London since 1972. Because of his vision, the John Templeton Foundation continues to give away about $40 million a year – especially to projects, college courses, books, and essays on the benefits of cooperation between science and religion.In 2003, The Templeton Foundation committed to a generous pledge to launch the Templeton Freedom Awards program with Atlas Network. Since that time, Atlas has presented these awards and grants to outstanding think tanks working to improve the public understanding of freedom. The Acton Institute has won two Templeton Freedom Prizes.Subscribe to our podcastsRegister Now for Business Matters 2023Apply Now for Acton University 2023 (Early Bird Pricing) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do we approach a loved one with Alzheimer's and other cognitive disorders in a way that affirms their continuing self-identity? Dr. Stephen Post has worked around the world helping caregivers navigate the challenges of a loved one's cognitive decline. According to Dr. Post, focusing discussion and resources on the dignity of these individuals and the respite needs of their caregivers is vital. Dr. Post is an elected member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board of Alzheimer's Disease International, and one of only three recipients of the Alzheimer's Association Distinguished Service Award. In 2001, he founded the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love with Sir John Templeton. Dr. Post is the founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. His newest book is, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer's Disease. Music: www.purple-planet.comShow site: www.cyacyl.com
Today's episode features Templeton World Charity Foundation President Dr. Andrew Serazin and John Templeton Foundation President Heather Templeton Dill, as they discuss Sir John Templeton's legacy while considering human flourishing at TWCF's first-annual Global Scientific Conference on Human Flourishing. We also hear from conference participants Maritza Trejo, Regional Director for Education Programs for Glasswing International in Central America, and Dr. Duncan Astle, a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. Read the transcript of this episode Subscribe to Stories of Impact wherever you listen to podcasts Find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube Share your comments, questions and suggestions at info@storiesofimpact.org Supported by Templeton World Charity Foundation
The Interview Discusses: Founding Ariel (which now manages more than $16 billion) at the age of 24.Surviving the stock market crash of 1987 and how he turned this setback into an opportunity to grow both his firm as well as his reputation.Why sitting on corporate boards such as McDonalds and Nike have made him a better investor.How his investment process has evolved overtime.How he constructs portfolios in terms of both diversification of industries and individual stocks. He also discusses how he thinks about the liquidity of a stock when making an investment.Why he believes studying behavior finance is important.His thoughts on position sizing and when he decides to sell a stock.His investment thesis on both Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Madison Square Garden Sports.And much more….Biography:John's passion for investing began at age 12 when his father began buying him stocks as Christmas and birthday gifts. His interest in equities grew at Princeton University, where he majored in economics, and over the two-plus years he worked as a stockbroker for William Blair & Company, LLC. In 1983, John founded Ariel to focus on patient, value investing within small- and medium-sized companies. While our research capabilities have expanded across the globe, patience is still the disciplined approach that drives the firm today. Early in his career, John's investment acumen brought him to the forefront of media attention and culminated in him being selected as Co-Mutual Fund Manager of the Year by Sylvia Porter's Personal Finance magazine as well as an All-Star Mutual Fund Manager by USA TODAY. Furthermore, John has been highlighted alongside legendary investors Warren Buffett, Sir John Templeton and Ben Graham in the distinguished book: The World's 99 Greatest Investors by Magnus Angenfelt. His professional accomplishments extend to the boardroom where he is a member of the board of directors of McDonald's, NIKE, The New York Times Company and Ryan Specialty Group Holdings.John also serves as vice chair of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago. In 2008, John was awarded Princeton University's highest honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award, presented each year to the alumnus or alumna whose career embodies a commitment to national service. Following the election of President Barack Obama, John served as co-chair for the Presidential Inaugural Committee 2009, and more recently, he joined the Barack Obama Foundation's Board of Directors. John received an AB in economics from Princeton University, where he was also captain of the varsity basketball team.
Wat kunnen jonge beleggers leren van briljante geesten uit het verleden? Pim en Milou halen de rode draad uit interviews met grote namen als Charlie Munger, Sir John Templeton en Mohnish Pabrai. Wat opvalt: het zijn stuk voor stuk excentriekelingen die hun eigen durven (en kunnen!) kiezen, die zich geen zorgen maken over wat de kudde van hen denkt. Verder is er groot nieuws dat je niet wil missen (echt niet!), mogen wij onze handjes dichtknijpen met onze community en legt Pim nog één keer uit waarom hij zo'n fan is van The Zuck.► Uitgebreide show notes en achtergrondinformatie: https://jongbeleggendepodcast.nl/116-lessen-van-goeroes► Word Vriend: https://portfoliodividendtracker.com► Updates via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jongbeleggen► Mijn volledige portfolio: https://beta.portfoliodividendtracker.com/p/jongbeleggenDoor de toenemende populariteit van de podcast blijkt het echter onmogelijk om alle berichten te beantwoorden; hoe graag ik dat ook zou willen. Veel vragen die gemaild worden krijgen een antwoord in de podcast. De kans is heel groot dat jouw vraag al besproken is in één van alle afleveringen. Voor veelgestelde vragen verwijs ik je graag door naar de website, waar een pagina hiervoor is ingericht. Klik hier voor alle veelgestelde vragen.Deze podcast is 100% expertise-vrij en alleen geschikt voor amusementsdoeleinden. De inhoud mag niet worden beschouwd als financieel advies.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:10:14 - How he pioneered the idea of behavioral finance by living it. 12:32 - The highlights of Sir John Templeton's career.35:00 - What led John to become Sir John.38:20 - How Lauren's fund has evolved since it was first funded by Sir John.52:42 - Lauren's thoughts on nature vs nurture, having grown up in a family of famous investors.1:01:00 - How to invest at the time of optimum pessimism and if we are there today.And a whole lot more!*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.BOOKS AND RESOURCES:Templeton & Phillips Website.Templeton Newsletter.Lauren Templeton's Twitter.Check out our favorite Apps and Services.New to the show? Check out our We Study Billionaires Starter Packs.Our tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance Tool.Find Pros & Fair Pricing for Any Home Project for Free with Angi.Use Keeper Security's enterprise password management platform to enforce strong passwords and to make it easy for your teams to securely share credentials.Break into the multifamily investing space or level up your investing game. Learn these at the Multifamily Investor Nation Convention. Visit mfincon.com for details and tickets. Use promo code TIP to get $200 off your tickets.Every 28 seconds an entrepreneur makes their first sale on Shopify. Access powerful tools to help you find customers, drive sales, and manage your day-to-day. Start a FREE fourteen-day trial right now!Try out Rhoback's performance polos, q-zips, or hoodies and bring a new meaning to the word comfortable. Use the code STUDY and get 20% off your first order.Depend on RBC Wealth Management's investment expertise to build a plan that helps you strengthen your financial security no matter where you are in life.Meet every business challenge -- from point of sale to eCommerce, staff management, business operations, costumer solutions, and so much more by using Square's customized and connected tools.Personalize your plans in improving your metabolism, reducing stress, improving sleep, and optimizing your health with InsideTracker. Use discount code TIP to get 20% off the entire InsideTracker store.Send, spend and receive money around the world easily with Wise.Confidently take control of your online world without worrying about viruses, phishing attacks, ransomware, hacking attempts, and other cybercrimes with Avast One.Get a FREE Wealth Protection Kit and learn how thousands are protecting their retirement savings and adding $10,000 (or more) in free Silver with Goldco.Help protect your family's financial future with TD Term Life Insurance.Gain the skills you need to move your career a level up when you enroll in a Swinburne Online Business Degree. Search Swinburne Online today.Get the most from your bitcoin while holding your own keys with Unchained Capital. Begin the concierge onboarding process on their site. At the checkout, get $50 off with the promo code FUNDAMENTALS.Instantly elevate your ketone levels with just one dose with Ketone-IQ, a drinkable ketone technology created by H.V.M.N and the US Military. The first 50 people to use the code ALPHA will get 20% off.Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here.Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors.HELP US OUT!Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
BIO: William Green is the author of “Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life.” The book is based on hundreds of hours of interviews that he's conducted with many legendary investors over the past quarter of a century. STORY: We look at some of the many lessons William learned from spending hundreds of hours interviewing some of our greatest investors. LEARNING: Be aware of your flaws and frailties. Avoid standard stupidities. Be authentic and true to who you are. “I'm very vulnerable to my flaws and frailties. I think it's a valuable thing to be aware of your particular flavor of stupidity.”William Green Guest profileWilliam Green is the author of a book titled “https://amzn.to/3bkMTrK (Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life).” The book is based on hundreds of hours of interviews that he's conducted with many legendary investors over the last quarter of a century. Published in 2021, the book is being translated into about 22 languages. William is also the host of the “https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/richer-wiser-happier/ (Richer, Wiser, Happier)” podcast, in which he interviews famous investors like Howard Marks, Joel Greenblatt, and Ray Dalio. William has written for many leading publications, including The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron's, and The Economist. He also edited Time magazine's European, Middle Eastern, African, and Asian editions. Having interviewed extraordinary people like Jack Bogle, who founded Vanguard, Peter Lynch, the legendary investor of fidelity, and Sir John Templeton, who was probably the greatest international investor of the 20th century, among others, William Green has learned many lessons about investing and life in general. Today, we go straight to some of the profound lessons he's learned. Lessons learnedSelf-awareness is critical in investing successfullyOne of William's most essential lessons from spending hundreds of hours interviewing great investors is that he's not one of them. He doesn't have the temperament that they have or the intellectual firepower that most of them have. He's not as calm, patient, or rational as they are or has an obsessive fascination with sitting around analyzing business models and looking at financial statements. However, this realization is not a bad thing. In fact, it's incredibly liberating. William realized that once he was self-aware, he could stop playing against people better equipped to win than he was. Charlie Munger taught him it's best to play games that you can winThis incredible revelation came particularly from Charlie Munger, Buffett's polymath genius partner at Berkshire Hathaway. Munger taught William that it's best to play games that you can win. Now William is aware of his strengths and thus takes on opportunities in life that harness those strengths. When it comes to investing, the lesson here is that people should avoid buying individual stocks if they don't know how to value a business and, therefore, are not equipped to understand the individual stocks that are winners. Arnold Van Den Berg taught him the value of controlling your inner landscapeAnother lesson William took away from his interviews came from Arnold Van Den Berg. He was born just before World War II, and during the Holocaust, he went into hiding as a Jew. Van Den Berg was a guy who was least likely to succeed. He barely made it through high school and had internalized the idea that he was stupid and brain-damaged. Yet, he had this incredibly successful investment career that he built by turning around his life and controlling his inner self. Whenever William is anxious, sad, self-loathing, or feeling like his life is going in the wrong direction, he thinks of Van Den Berg's journey. If Van Den Berg could turn his life around, he could also achieve what he wanted if William just took control of his inner landscape. Money is important to reduce...
What's up! It's episode 84 of Payne Points of Wealth! Markets Go Up, Markets Go Down, Markets Go Sideways! We have no idea where the direction of the market is going right now. It's crazy out there. We've got good manufacturing data. We've got good employment data. Yet, it seems like something is looming on the horizon. We're gonna break it down for you. What our view is of the economy right now and how to position your portfolio best given all the uncertainty in the world. On the Tipping Point today, we've got lots of questions from you the listeners. We're going to answer some of the questions that you've sent us in the last couple of months, some really good ones that we're gonna address today to help you on your path to financial independence. You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in... Is this a 2008 repeat or is it different this time? [1:08] If you're sitting in cash right now what are you waiting for? [4:42] How can you have a recession when everyone is employed? [7:11] The Tipping Point [9:22] Do you favor selling stocks at this time or just riding the carnage out? [14:57] Hidden Facts of Finance [18:04] Is it different this time? We're getting a lot of questions as to whether this is like the 2008, 2009 great recession, is financial panic on the horizon, or is it different this time? You know the four most dangerous words according to Sir John Templeton are it's different this time. We're seeing phenomenal economic numbers so we don't think that it's a repeat of 2008 and 2009. But when you see the headlines every day, they just come in so dire. We had JP Morgan's CEO, Jamie Dimon, come out and say that we have an economic hurricane on the horizon. That's not comforting. He's concerned about this big roll off of all these bonds that the Fed's been holding on their balance sheet. He said, it's unprecedented and he's worried about the war in Ukraine. Man, oh, man. It just seems like every headline out there wherever you look, is just negativity, negativity, negativity. Thankfully, we do this podcast to counter some of that. This week on the tipping point: Q&A We get a lot of questions from listeners and our clients over the last couple of weeks. So I thought we could answer a couple of them here right on the show. The first question is great because a lot of people probably have the same questions about their financial independence plan. The first question is: My wife and I are in our 50s and are thinking about changing our lifestyle to do some traveling while we work remotely. What would your advice be towards building a million-dollar portfolio of dividend-producing stocks to supplement our income while we travel for a couple of years? This would consist of solid blue chip dividend stocks and some REIT stocks with high-paying dividends. The second question is: Do you favor selling stocks at this time or just riding the carnage out? In other words, is this a correction or the beginning of a bear market? Listen to the episode for our answers to the questions above! This week's hidden facts of finance Global GDP has estimated to run $94 trillion this year. The US represents only 25% of that, which says there might be some opportunity to invest maybe outside the US. Saudi Aramco replaced Apple as the world's most valuable company. Since 1936 dividends have contributed 36% of the total return of the S&P 500 according to a Bank of America. Expect payments again to grow by 13%. this year. Resources & People Mentioned See if you qualify for a complimentary financial review from the Paynes Connect With Ryan, Bob, and Chris http://PayneCM.com Follow on Twitter Follow on Facebook Follow on LinkedIn Subscribe on YouTube Follow on Instagram Subscribe to Payne Points of Wealth On Apple Podcasts, On Google Podcasts, On Spotify
In this episode, Cole and Bill are joined by Lauren Templeton co-author of the book, Investing the Templeton Way: The Market-Beating Strategies of Value Investing's Legendary Bargain Hunter. Lauren discusses the life of her great uncle and famed investor Sir John Templeton, how he capitalized on buying at the point of maximum pessimism, and his route to becoming known as one of the greatest stock pickers in history.
Die Dividendenstrategie von Franklin Templeton Investments: Mein heutiger Gast ist Investment-Stratege für Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) bei Franklin Templeton Investments und betreut in dieser Funktion unter anderem den hauseigenen Franklin LibertyQ Global Dividend UCITS ETF. Gemeinsam schauen wir hinter die Kulisse einer Fondsgesellschaft und des genannten Dividenden-ETFs, betrachten die zugrunde liegende Strategie und deren Umsetzung und diskutieren über die Faszination und Wirkung von Ausschüttungen! Sir John Templeton gilt als Investmentlegende und Pionier des globalen Value Investing. An seinem im Jahr 1954 gegründeten Templeton Growth Fund kam noch in den 1990er Jahren keine finanzaffine Person vorbei. Und tatsächlich kann ich mich selbst noch gut an die mannigfaltige Vermarktung des Flaggschiffs der Fondsbranche erinnern. Seine Investmentgesellschaft hatte Sir John Templeton bereits im Jahr 1992 an die Vermögensverwaltung Franklin Distributors verkauft, welche beide Unternehmen zu Franklin Templeton Investments fusionierte und bereits frühzeitig das ETF-Potenzial erkannte und besetzte. Mittlerweile verwaltet das Unternehmen mehrere dutzend ETFs, darunter einen mit klarem Dividendenfokus. Genau diesen haben wir ins Visier genommen und dabei eine Vielzahl von Aspekten besprochen! Der Sponsor dieser Podcast-Folge ist LYNX Broker. Anleger, die Wert auf ein kostenloses Wertpapierdepot, günstige und transparente Gebühren und Zugang zu mehr als 100 Börsen weltweit legen, sind hier gut aufgehoben.
Heather Templeton Dill is president of the John Templeton Foundation. Before assuming this role in 2015, she served as executive liaison to the president under her father, the late Dr. Jack Templeton. Dill is the granddaughter of the late Sir John Templeton. In her tenure as president, Dill and the Foundation have awarded 1,334 grants and donations totaling more than $874 million. The John Templeton Foundation funds research and discovery across a range of subjects in the sciences, philosophy, and theology, from gratitude and hope to the psychology of purpose and positive neuroscience. Under her leadership, the Foundation plans to increase its grants and donations to approximately $313 million in 2021 and 2022. Heather joins me today to discuss the vision and purpose of the John Templeton Foundation and what their aspiration of becoming a global catalyst for discoveries that contribute to human flourishing means in real terms. We discuss Heather's purpose of enabling people to create lives of purpose and meaning and how the foundation encourages them through their grants. Heather also gives her invaluable advice to leaders on why gratitude is the lens through which they should view their world. “I absolutely see my role as a calling, as a vocation, as something that providence has guided me to over time.” - Heather Templeton Dill “We want the research we fund to make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and communities.” - Heather Templeton Dill “Those concepts, those ideas, those actions, like forgiveness, gratitude, and generosity, contribute to human flourishing because it helps us make the lives of those around us better.” - Heather Templeton Dill This Week on The Wow Factor: What Heather learned from her physician parents about the joy of giving Why it can be a challenge for leaders to take the space that's required for reflection Heather's initial career aspirations, when and why she pivoted towards working with the Templeton Foundation The philanthropic organizations that Heather's grandfather founded — The John Templeton World Charity Foundation, and the Templeton Religion Trust How Heather and her sister managed their relationship when Heather was considering stepping up as president of the Foundation Why Heather sees the John Templeton Foundation as a catalyst that sparks new fields of research How Heather aligns what the John Templeton Foundation does now with what we think her grandfather wanted to accomplish Why Heather is inspired by her grandfather's vision and her feeling that it is a privilege and an honor to carry it forward Heather Templeton Dill's Words of Wisdom: There are two components to gratitude; firstly, all leaders need to be very grateful for the position they hold to be a leader and a servant as the head of an institution. The second is to express gratitude for those who work with you and for you. Expressing gratitude both in writing and publicly is so important in leadership. Connect with Heather Templeton Dill: John Templeton Foundation Website John Templeton Foundation on Instagram John Templeton Foundation on Facebook John Templeton Foundation on Twitter John Templeton Foundation on YouTube Connect with The WOW Factor: I Like Giving: The Transforming Power of a Generous Life by Brad Formsma Words of Wisdom Website Brad Formsma on LinkedIn Brad Formsma on Instagram Brad Formsma on Facebook Brad Formsma on Twitter
You can find the episode on: Spotify, Apple, Google, RSS, and anchor.“It's all about how you gain control over your mind. It's all an inside job.”Hello everyone.I'm very excited to share my conversation with William Green (@williamgreen72), the author of RICHER, WISER, HAPPIER: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in Markets and Life. It's one of my favorite investment books this year because it is about so much more than just investing. William called it a “stealth spiritual book” and I have big sticker on my copy: “This is not a book about investing.”This conversation was a about William's own journey and setbacks, his search for worldly wisdom in everything from Zen Buddhism to Stoicism to the Kabbalah, and the many lessons he learned from great investors. It was the perfect conversation to bookend the year and provided me with a ton of ideas to reflect on over the holidays. I hope you will find it as valuable as I did.Also, William is working on his own podcast (he mentioned it towards the end of our conversation) for which I'm very excited. Keep an eye out for that, I'm sure he'll have some amazing guests and deep conversations.You can find the transcript here. It took a lot of time to clean up the automated transcript and I hope that going forward I'll be able to pay someone to do that work. However, this also means that the transcript is only going to be available for premium subscribers. You can still find the highlights and timestamps below.Today's post is sponsored by Tegus. Tegus is an on-demand digital research platform on which investors share their expert calls. Their library currently has some 23,000+ calls covering many public and private companies and it's growing every day. It's a beautiful business model (I wish I was an investor!) and I could see it scaling up to cover any company and industry you can imagine. 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I am are not your fiduciary or advisor.Highlights:* 2.00: Introduction, William's journey to the book. * "This is not an investment book"* 3.00: “You can see within investing this exquisite complexity of life, all of the ways in which we're living in this murky place, where we don't know much, and we can't tell what the future holds. And yet we somehow have to try to make decisions.”* “Great investors … they're tremendous pragmatists. And it struck me. I started to think of them as practical philosophers.”* 6.00: “I was working on the last part of the book. Just as COVID was turning our lives upside down. And it gave me an intense sense of my own mortality. And I started to think, well, let me at least leave one thing in my life that's worthwhile. … So there's a sort of grandiosity to the ambition of it where I'm actually trying to create something that will help readers and also at the same time, help myself.”* 7.00: William's study of everything from Zen Buddhism to the Stoics to the Kabbalah. “Tell me about what you're reading and why and how it's influenced your life?”* "I dip into the Zohar almost every day"* “I put in that sentence in the book and nobody has ever asked me about it.”* 10.00: “It's really a coded story about how do you get out of the dungeon when you're stuck, when you feel like you're going nowhere in your life, when you're lost, how do you get out of the dungeon? … And so it becomes a story about consciousness and how could he be free? While he was stuck in jail.* 11.00: “What they would say is this isn't about a fight that you have every generation with the Amalekites, this tribe that the Israelites fought with 4,000 years ago or whatever it was. It's about this war of consciousness with your own doubt. And so if you read the old Testament, literally, you just think it's kind of this meaningless story about fighting the Amalekites. But if you read it in this sense of it's all really about a path of consciousness.”* 12.00: “When I study things like Tibetan Buddhism, which I also find exquisitely beautiful or stoicism, which I found very helpful, I see this tremendous overlap. It's really all about consciousness. It's about how do you gain control of your inner landscape? How do you gain control of your mind? And, and so I think in the epilogue, I quote this great line from the poet Milton, who was blind, who was saying that the mind can make a hell of heaven or heaven of hell.”* 14.00: Sir John Templeton. “I failed to understand that what he was saying is no, no, you have to, you have to win this inner game in order to have a happy and successful life.”* 17.00: Tsoknyi Rinpoche, handshake practice.* 20.00: Jason Karp. “That disconnect between his effort and his performance was torture.”* 22.00: “The inner game of writing or investing is dealing with these fears, your anxiety, your desire to be respected, to have honor all of this stuff. It's your ability to deal with setbacks, your sense that however hard you work, sometimes it just doesn't work out.”* 24.00: Sometimes life has to burn down?* “We can get subtly misaligned and feel that we're going in the wrong direction, but you keep going. Sometimes you need it all to fall apart in a fairly dramatic way, whether it's a marriage or a job health, a career or reputation, you kinda need it to collapse.”* William's own setback and dealing with being laid off during the financial crisis.* 27.00: “One of the things that I liked about studying Kabbalah actually is that they, as I understood it, they would say if you don't believe that there's water, if you just think it's all random and that stuff just happens and it's unfair and is chaotic, you've actually created that reality because if consciousness is everything you see, the world is just chaos and disorder. But if you think there's order and there's something for you to learn and that everything is there for you to grow, then you create that reality. And it reminds me a bit, there's a beautiful [00:28:00] line from Einstein where he said, you can either live as if everything is a miracle or as if nothing is a miracle.”* “If you look at the things you've gone through, whether it's breakdowns of relationships or breakdowns of career, or existential angst, which I've had tons of over the years and you think, ‘God it all lead to these extraordinary things,' that's a totally different attitude and different framing than if you say, ‘God things never work out for me.'”* 29.00: “There's an extraordinary story where the temple, which was supposed to be the holiest place in the world in Jerusalem, burned down and rabbi Akiva, as he's watching, he starts dancing. And so that's an extraordinary thing.If you think of that triumph over sadness, uncertainty, fear about what's gonna happen.”* 31.00: How did he pick the subjects and ideas of the book?* "One idiosyncrasy of this book is that I've focused almost exclusively on investors whom I like and admire." (“I'm particularly drawn to those with wisdom, insights, and virtues that extend beyond an exceptional talent for making money.”)* 37.00: Bill Miller* 40.00: “And so I saw Bill dealing with this very painful staff in a really honest and honorable way. And he would say well he didn't realize how catastrophically wrong I could be because he said when you've been right, right, right. For all of those years, you said, even though theoretically, you know, that you need to be humble, you actually start to believe that you know what you're talking about.”* 43.00: “I write at some point in that epilogue, I say there is as great honor in the simple virtue of perseverance. And I don't say that lightly. I think that really deeply, I mean, there's something, one of the things about writing is that when, when you really simplify and distill things, you're always worried that people will see how banal your mind is and how trivial you are.* But, actually truth is pretty simple, I think. And so for me, when I'm condensing it down to that, I mean, I said there are two great lessons for me from Miller's Miller's downfall and recovery, because his recovery has been equally spectacular. One of them is about the simple virtue of perseverance and [00:44:00] one of them is everyone suffers.”* 46.00: “Life as a series of adversities that give you an opportunity either to behave well or badly” (Munger)* 48.00: How do I regain sort of control or semblance of control of, of the inner game or if my mind? Is reading enough?* 51.00: vice admiral Stockdale, * 53.00: “I used to be immensely impressed with the beauty of Miller's mind. When I was first writing about him in my twenties, there was something really wonderful about the fact that he was just so darn smart, just brilliant mind and brilliant moneymaker and gambler who outwitted everyone else.And gradually as I got older, I realized that actually what I admired most was his extraordinary resilience. And the fact that when faced with this incredible setback, he handled it just incredibly well. And, and there was a moment that I, I don't think I write about in the book where I was in his garden of his home in, in Maryland. … And he was living in a way that was deeply aligned with who he is. And he would show up for work every day and in jeans and a black t-shirt. … And I said to him, it's really amazing, it's kind of like Miller Unbound.You don't take orders from anyone. You're in control of your time, your [00:55:00] schedule, everything. And he's like, yeah, that's the best. And I, could just see that there was this kind of personal victory of this guy who is now 70, 71 who'd come through this storm and realigned himself afterwards in a way that was deeply true to who he is in all of his glorious idiosyncrasy.”* 58.00: “And, and so I'm not super impressed just with the ability to make money and not live a more thoughtful life. I think I was more impressed with that when I was younger. I liked that aspect of the [00:58:00] game of just being able to outwit the crowd. There's something about that, that I found very, very appealing.”* 59.00: What is it like to write about people who are very successful financially? Is there a downside (envy)?* “Why their lives resonated with me, whether it was a Bill Miller or a Nick Sleep, or a Monish Pabrai or Charlie Munger, in some ways they were all outsiders who had diverged from the crowd. And they were thinking in a very, in a very free way, they were questioning conventional opinion and they had constructed their lives in a way that was very true to who they are. So that resonated deeply with me because I could see that I was also an outsider who at least in my own mind who didn't naturally want to go with the crowd.”* Ed Thorp, Monish Pabrai, Irving Kahn* 1.03.00: The value of freedom and independence.* “I remember at one point working on a project with someone I really disliked who was kind of a bully and threatened me at one point and Monish said to me, you know, if you had had a bit more money, you just would have walked away and said, you know, f**k you. And, and I realized that was true.”* “It's been clarifying to me too, to know that being aligned with who you are in a deep sense is, is a very important thing. That that's the goal. It's the independence. It's not, it's not the number of zeroes in your [01:06:00] account. It's actually living in a way that's true to who you are.”* 1.11.00: Self awareness and lessons for non-professional investors. “Stumbling” into the right strategy.* From the book: Nick Sleep: "as luck would have it, he had stumbled into a field that perfectly suited his idiosyncratic mind."* "It also helps if, like Marks and Price, you stumble into an opportunity that happens to suit your talents and temperament."* Eveillard: "He had the good fortune to stumble upon Graham's value-oriented principles, which gave him an analytical edge."* 1.17.00: “Mohnish is optimized, as he once put it to me for the game of investing. He is very rational. He plays the odds. He loves playing, playing blackjack and poker and things like that for money. I mean, he figured out a card counting technique, basically. But he said it's incredibly slow and boring. But that he has the patience for, I can't play games. I find games incredibly tedious, even something like Scrabble, [01:17:00] which I should love as a word person. I'm too impatient for it. And so I have to accept the fact that I'm just not optimized to play the game of sitting in a room reading annual reports and occasionally finding a mispriced gamble, like a Munger does. That just doesn't suit my temperament. And so I have to outsource stock picking to other investors who are better suited for it. And so I think just that self-awareness of saying, am I playing a game, the plays to my strengths, my talents, and my interests.”* 1.20.00: Writing a substack vs. a book.* “And I would work 70, 80 hours a week, very consistently. It was a young man's game. It was very intense. And I think I was good at my job, but I don't think [01:22:00] probably ultimately it really suited my talents and, and it may be. Getting laid off, I'm being forced to, to figure out what should I be doing?Actually set me on a path of writing books. That's much better suited to who I am. And I love writing books. I always adored books. I love the feel of books. And I love podcasts. I love the fact that you can, you can sit and just have a thoughtful conversation. And so those are very idiosyncratic reactions and choices.”* “I write about it very briefly with a guy Mike Zapata who was in seal team six, which is the unit that, that famously killed Osama bin Laden. And he ended up setting up a hedge fund and he said to me yeah, there are three things that are important to me. He said God, family and fund in that, in that order.And he said, even this conversation that you and I are having it's a little bit outside that. And he said, that's okay. But he said, I just need to know that I need to keep coming back to God, family and fund. I, that was really helpful. And there was something, something kind of wonderfully tactless and lacking in terms of [01:25:00] EQ that he told me that.”* 1.29.00: Ed Thorp, Irving Kahn* 1.31.00: “And you look at Ed Thorp and he said, when I asked him about what he regretted in his life, he said I don't regret any of the principled decisions that I made. That's a really interesting comment. So then you think, ah, looking back in his 80s, he's really happy about the principled decisions he made, even when they worked against him, even when he made less money.”If you enjoy my work, please consider sharing it with friends who might be interested. It would mean a lot to me and help me make this my life's mission.
https://www.williamgreenwrites.com/ (William Green) is the author ofhttps://www.amazon.com/Richer-Wiser-Happier-Greatest-Investors/dp/1501164856/ ( Richer, Wiser, Happier: How the World's Greatest Investors Win in the Markets and Life) (April 20, 2021; Scribner). The book is the culmination of his journalistic work, which led him to conversations with many of the world's greatest investors, from Sir John Templeton to Charlie Munger, Jack Bogle to Ed Thorp, Will Danoff to Mohnish Pabrai, Joel Greenblatt to Howard Marks. Green has written for many leading publications in the US and Europe, including The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Forbes, Barron's, Fast Company, Money, Worth, Bloomberg Markets, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Observer, The (London) Spectator, The (London) Independent Magazine, and The Economist. He has reported in places as diverse as China, India, Japan, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the US, Mexico, England, France, Monaco, Poland, Italy, and Russia. He has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, inventors, criminals, prize-winning authors, the CEOs of some of the world's largest companies, and countless billionaires. Green has collaborated on several books as a ghostwriter, co-author, or editor. One of them became a #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller in 2017. He also worked closely with a renowned hedge fund manager, Guy Spier, helping him to write his much-praised 2014 memoir, The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment. Green also wrote and edited The Great Minds of Investing, which features short profiles of 33 renowned investors, along with stunning portraits created by Michael O'Brien, one of America's preeminent photographers. Introduction: [01:45] – Introducing author William Green [05:00] – Tasting - https://widowjane.com/ (Widow Jane) – 10 Year Aged Bourbon Whiskey [07:23] – Simplicity – “Intelligent people are easily seduced by complexity while underestimating simple ideas that carry tremendous weight.” “There are no extra points for difficulty.” [16:30] – Worldly Wisdom - “The ability just to make vast sums of money is not something that honorable or noble…it's a great party trick”. “Why worship people just because they were good at this one game of making money?” [24:30] – High-Performance Habits – “when people try to be optimal, they tend to screw up because that's not sustainable…if I just pick some directionally correct habits and just keep plugging away for decades, it's going to work out in the long run.” [27:50] – Being Directionally Correct & Radically Moderate – “the aggregation of marginal gains…there are all of these habits that give you a marginal advantage…none of these things seem that big of a deal on the day…when you combine them, they become very powerful.” [35:20] – "In a world that's increasingly geared toward short-termism and instant gratification, a tremendous advantage can be gained by those who consistently move in the opposite direction. This applies not only to business, but to our relationships, health, careers, and everything else that matters." [54:50] – Arnold Van Den Berg – “Part of what's so striking about Arnold was he was dealt the worst possible hand…born into a Jewish family during the Holocaust in Amsterdam on the same street as Ann Frank…and managed to transform himself over the years to this incredibly kind, loving, decent bloke”. [1:14:15] – We're all flawed and experience turmoil [1:23:15] – William on Wealth “for me it's really important to have the freedom work together with people I like and admire on something that's valuable and worthwhile and is interesting and serves other people in some way…that freedom and independence is a critical part of wealth.” Links: https://www.vermillionprivatewealth.com/bullsbearsandbourbon (www.bullsbearsandbourbon.com)...
Synergos Cultivate the Soul: Stories of Purpose-Driven Philanthropy
Listen to hear how Heather has been guided throughout her life by a concern for the welfare of others and how, in her earlier career, she sought to transform systems by working on the frontlines of education. She also shares the role science plays in spirituality, what this means to her personally and how this is put into practice at the John Templeton Foundation. Heather Templeton Dill is president of the John Templeton Foundation. Most recently, she served as executive liaison to the president under her father, the late Dr. Jack Templeton. Dill is the granddaughter of the late Sir John Templeton. Prior to joining the Foundation staff, she taught high school level history, government, and economics in Pennsylvania. While living in Charlottesville, Virginia, she was a homeschool educator as well as a manuscript editor and research assistant at the University of Virginia. She served as a trustee of the John Templeton Foundation from 1997-2003 and 2009-2015 and has been a member of the Foundation’s executive, finance, and strategic planning committees. Dill is currently a member of the board of First Trust Bank and previously served on the Templeton Religion Trust steering committee and the Templeton World Charity Foundation board. She holds a master’s degree in American history from Villanova University and is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in history and a concentration in public policy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
William Green is a journalist and author, who has written for many leading publications in the US and Europe, including The New Yorker, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Money, The Economist, and others. He has interviewed presidents and prime ministers, inventors, criminals, prize-winning authors, the CEOs of some of the world's largest companies, and countless billionaires. William's most recent book is "Richer, Wiser, Happier,” where he draws on interviews that he's conducted over twenty-five years with many of the world's greatest investors. He spent time with time with people like Sir John Templeton, Joel Greenblatt, Nick Sleep, Mohnish Pabrai, and Charlie Munger, and distilled for the readers what it is that we can take away from their disciplines, their mindsets, their habits, and day to day activities, that we can apply in other walks of life beyond financial management. What Is Covered: - Why we can regard the world's greatest investors as practical philosophers - The connection between resilient wealth creation and emotional resilience - Why the idea of cloning other investor's practices is still subversive in today's world - Exercise, nutrition, meditation and sleep as the basics for making good decisions Key Learnings and Takeaways: - When you decide to clone someone's fundamental ideas and insights that work, you have to do it in a way that's aligned with your own temperament and skills - In order to create resilient wealth, you don't need the optimal strategy, you need a strategy that's good enough, that's directionally correct - You don't want to wait until you're in the midst of a crisis to adopt habits such as quality nutrition, exercise, meditation and sleep; it's important to adopt these good habits before the crisis. Links and Resources Mentioned in This Episode: - “Richer, Wiser, Happier” by William Green http://www.williamgreenwrites.com/richer-wiser-happier/ - Connect with William Green on Twitter https://twitter.com/williamgreen72 - Connect with William Green on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-green-79809a19/ - “Power vs. Force” by David R. Hawkins https://www.amazon.com/Power-vs-Force-David-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00EJBABS2 - “Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender” by David R. Hawkins https://www.amazon.com/Letting-Go-David-R-Hawkins-ebook/dp/B00EY818TQ/ - “Carefree Dignity” by Tsoknyi Rinpoche https://www.amazon.com/Carefree-Dignity-Discourses-Training-Nature/dp/9627341320 - “Open Heart, Open Mind” by Tsoknyi Rinpoche https://www.amazon.com/Open-Heart-Mind-Guide-Transformation/dp/1846043441/ - “Altered Traits” by Daniel Goleman https://www.amazon.com/Altered-Traits-Science-Reveals-Meditation/dp/0399184392/ - Colliding with the Unexpected with Gillian Tett on OutsideVoices https://outsidelens.com/colliding-with-the-unexpected-with-gillian-tett/ - Accidental CEO with David Novak on OutsideVoices https://outsidelens.com/accidental-ceo-with-david-novak/ Connect with OutsideVoices: - Follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/outsidelens/ - Check us out on Twitter https://twitter.com/LensOutside
Sign up to our newsletter for more in-depth insights | Follow us on LinkedIn Mark Mobius, who has been referred to as the Godfather of Emerging Markets, was named as one of the 50 Most Influential People in 2011. Author of several books, he received the Life Time Achievement Award in Asset Management, started the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund which grew to $40 billion, and in 2018 opened Mobius Capital Partners. He describes being born in New York to German and Puerto Rico parents, his degree from Boston University, a PhD from MIT, and studying in Japan in the 1960s. He talks about his journey from academic life to research and then asset management, and the opportunity to join legendary investor Sir John Templeton and create their emerging market fund, as well as sharing some lessons and advice learned from him. He discusses his investment approach, the opportunities and pitfalls of investing in developing markets and navigating a passage which can include volatile currencies and regime change. Against consensus he explains why it is important to visit countries and companies you are investing in as opposed to relying on conference calls. He reflects on the approaches taken to deal with Covid 19, his preferred investing destinations today, and why shareholder activism is becoming a powerful force in emerging economies. Before sharing the tale of his escape from a shoot-out in the Philippines, he offers some honest but direct advice for the young thinking about careers.