22- ROIC Rulers: The Management Numbers (Part 2)
InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast
Phil Town & Danielle Town
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🗓️ 8 September 2015
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hi, I'm Phil Town. I'm Danielle Town. And we're here to talk about being |
| 0:09.6 | invested all the way in. We're here to talk about these numbers that we've been talking about and how they can |
| 0:18.7 | indicate soft information with hard numbers. |
| 0:21.4 | That's what we've been talking about. |
| 0:22.6 | Yeah, we're kind of working our way down trying to be, to see if we're capable of understanding |
| 0:27.2 | a business, right? |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah. That's kind of fundamentally rules of the game. And from Charlie Munger who said that's the first most critical |
| 0:37.5 | thing is that we have to know that we're capable of understanding the |
| 0:41.8 | business. |
| 0:42.6 | So part of that is that you have to know that the business |
| 0:47.1 | has certain qualities, intrinsic characteristics |
| 0:51.2 | that make it durable and that management is the kind of people you want to put |
| 0:55.8 | your money with that you trust them and that they have integrity. |
| 0:59.4 | So how do we know that? |
| 1:01.8 | That's so hard to know and like in the management stuff. |
| 1:06.4 | That we kind of... |
| 1:07.4 | It is. |
| 1:08.4 | It's like you can think somebody's really a good person and what they are is really a |
| 1:12.3 | good sales person. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah good at controlling their image and a lot of CEOs are just like that. |
| 1:19.0 | Yeah. This is not to say they're bad people but they got to the top because they're really good at |
| 1:24.3 | controlling their image and you know it's a political game to get to the top of a lot of |
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