A Great Book for People Who Think Investing Is Difficult
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James P. O’ Shaughnessy wrote the perfect book for people who think that investing has to the risky, complex, and dangerous. It is also the perfect book for those who want to think that they can outsmart the market. This book has the academic and numerical proof that a passive or mechanical system of investing will in most cases beat a human system of investing.. . even professional investors such as fund managers. This book also explains why nine out of ten investors do not make money.
O’ Shaughnessy’s best-selling book is titled “What Works On Wall Street: A Guide to the Best Performing Investment Strategies of All Time”. O’ Shaughnessy distinguishes between two basic types of decision-making:
- The clinical or intuitive method. This method relies on knowledge, experience, and common sense.
- The quantitative or actuarial method. This method relies solely on proven relationships based on large samples of data.
O’ Shaughnessy found that most investors prefer the intuitive method of investment decision-making. In most instances, the investor who used the intuitive method was wrong or beaten by the nearly mechanical method. He quotes David Faust, author of The Limits of Scientific Reasoning, who writes, “Human judgment is far more limited than we think.” Read more
Investing is Not What Most People Think
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Many people think investing is this exciting process where there is a lot of drama. Many people think investing involves a lot of risk, luck, timing, and hot tips. Some realize they know little about this mysterious subject of investing, so they entrust their faith and money to someone they hope knows more than they do.
Many other so-called investors want to prove they know more than other people. . . so they invest, hoping to prove that they can outsmart the market. But while many people think this is investing, it is not what investing actually mean. Investment actually is a plan, often a dull, boring, and almost mechanical process of getting rich.
Investing is simply a plan, made up of formulas and strategies, a system for getting rich. . . almost guaranteed. Unless, of course, you want it to be that way or you think that is the way investing has to be, so there will be risky for it. But in the really world, investing is as simple and boring as following a recipe to bake bread. Read more
Rules of Investment Number Four
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Basic rule number four is, it is the investor itself is really the asset or the liability.
The investor is the asset or liability not the investment or security. I often hear that people say, ‘Investing is risky‘ it’s the investor who is risky. It is ultimately the investor who is the asset or the liability. I have seen many so-called investors lose money when everyone else is making money. I have sold businesses to many so-called business people and watch the businesses soon go bust. Read more
Why Investing Is Confusing??
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First of all, investing means different things to different people. That is why it seems so confusing? What most people call investing is not really investing? People are all talking about different things yet they often think they are talking about the same thing.
No One Is an Expert at Everything
Investing means different things to different people. There is no one person who can possibly be an expert at the entire subject. There are many different investment products and many different investment procedures.
Everyone Has a Bias
A person who is good at stocks will say, “Stocks are your best investment.” A person who loves real estate will say, “Real estate is the basis of all wealth.” Someone who hates gold will say, “Gold is an obsolete commodity.”
Then you add procedure bias and you really become confused. Some people say ‘Diversify. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” and still others such as Warren Buffet, America’s greatest investor, says, “Don’t diversify. Put all your eggs in one basket and watch that basket closely.”
All of this personal bias from so-called experts adds to the confusion that shrouds the subject of investing. Read more
Lloyd Blankfein in Business War
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Blankfein was born in to a Jewish family in the Bronx, New York City. He is raised in Brooklyn’s Linden Houses, part of the New York City Housing Authority. His father was a clerk with the Postal Service in Manhattan. 
He received primary and secondary education in the public schools of the New York City Department of Education, and was a valedictorian at Thomas Jefferson High School in 1971. Then, he attended Harvard University and earned his B.A in 1975, graduating with fellow Winthrop House student and future Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke. Read more
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