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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

42- Speculating vs. Investing

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Before buying a company, Rule #1 Investors do a ton of research to ensure the company they are buying meets Charlie Munger’s 4 key principles: meaning, moat, management, and margin of safety. In this week’s episode, we discuss the difference between investing and speculating, and why the term “risky investing” is an oxymoron. - Show notes and more info visit: www.investedpodcast.com -Get 6 Principles Video Series visit: www.investedpodcast.com/rulers - Live Transformational Investing Workshop visit: www.investedpodcast.com/workshop - For questions to be answered on the show, email: questions@investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Phil Towne and this is Danielle Towne. We're here for the

0:08.8

Invested Podcast where we talk about investing in businesses, also known as stocks.

0:16.0

We talk about buying the whole business

0:19.4

or acting as if you buy the whole business.

0:22.0

Exactly. When you buy one whole business. Exactly.

0:23.0

You buy one share of stock.

0:24.0

Yeah, we've been talking lately about the basic idea that Warren Buffett has.

0:29.0

We're very big on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger-type investing.

0:32.0

And we've been talking about Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger type investing.

0:33.0

And we've been talking about how to value something in the way Buffett looks at, say, a piece of real estate or a farming operation and just values them as a business is exactly the same way that we want to value any business,

0:47.5

whether it's public or private, we want to pay a certain price for it and we want to understand what we're buying. And we started off this

0:53.3

podcast a long time ago with Charlie Munger telling us these four simple things

0:59.4

and it would probably be a good idea. What do you think just to repeat them really

1:02.2

quickly right here?

1:03.5

I love the four principles. I think about them all the time now. They're so simple and yet there's so much

1:09.6

to say about them. I mean we spent I think six podcasts maybe when we first started talking about four

1:15.9

principles and I I almost think we should do another six now that we were like

1:21.2

40 podcasts down the road.

1:23.2

And we've got a lot of,

1:25.0

we've got a lot of sort of water under the bridge

1:28.0

or a little more experience of talking about the overall ideas of investing

1:31.9

and there's no question that Charlie is you know at one

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