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Rule Breaker Investing: Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 7
Motley Fool Staff, The Motley Fool
38 min read
It's time once again to dust off Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner's old writings and pull some lessons forward into the light of today.In this podcast we discuss buying stocks that you already own, annual predictions, risk ratings, and keeping a record of your investment decisions. We look back in order to be smarter about looking forward!
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A full transcript is below.
Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you’ll want to hear this.
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This video was recorded on April 02, 2025
David Gardner: I got a secret for you. Actually, it's a secret weapon for you as an investor today. One word for you and no. It's not plastics. History. History. It's secret because most people don't have much of it. They follow financial media outlets, which through TV and social media display and promote such a short memory, quoting stocks minute to minute, throwing the bells and whistles of our attention at whatever's just happened. Well, as a Fool, I love to look back. The lessons we really learn, learn and earn are a consequence of observing and living through history, measured in years, not hours or days. Well, for years, I wrote short essays to kick off our monthly Motley Fool issues.
I'm a quoting, as I say that they used to be snail mail mailed out to members back in the day. Well, today, the Motley Fool is, of course, pretty much fully digital and wedon't do paper copies anymore, and we don't do opening essays. But I put a lot of time into those essays, and they occurred over a long narrative arc of market history 2002-2017, 15 years worth of investing lessons in Motley Fool Stock Advisor and Rule Breakers. In this world of now now now, I say, you and I open up April 2025 by getting smarter, happier, and richer today for the lessons learned from yesterday. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
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