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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

47- How to Know What You Don't Know

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Warren Buffett says he's successful because he knows what he doesn’t know. But what does that really mean? Find out how your upbringing has influenced your investing habits, and how to pass on a “success-minded” influence to others. Show notes and more info visit: www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Bill Town this is Bill Town and we're here to talk about

0:09.3

being invested this is the invested podcast Being invested in your life and your money and having enough money to do what you want in your life.

0:18.0

And doing it so that you learn enough about investing that you can invest the way Warren Buffett does, which is to focus and hopefully achieve the fantastic rule of not losing money.

0:31.0

That's the ideal.

0:32.0

Yes, we don't want to lose money. I don't want to lose money. That's the ideal. Yes, we don't want to lose money. I don't want to lose money.

0:34.6

If you think about it, if you knew that you weren't going to lose any money on your investments,

0:38.3

you know you might not make money on them, but at least you know and the ones you did badly on you wouldn't lose

0:43.5

any money and on the ones you did well on you might do well enough that you could

0:47.9

have a fabulous rate of return far bigger than you'd be getting in mutual funds

0:52.1

which is actually Buffett's experience.

0:54.3

That sounds fantastic.

0:55.6

It does.

0:56.6

This was amazing.

0:57.6

Charlie Munger said this once.

0:58.9

Munger of course is Warren Buffett's partner and he said, you know know you look at our results over 60 years and it

1:07.6

gets down to about 10 or 15 businesses that we really got right.

1:12.1

10 or 15. That's what he. 10 or 15.

1:13.0

That's what he said, 10 or 15.

1:14.4

Yeah, in 60 years that they got right.

1:17.1

That really may...

1:17.8

And how many did they get wrong?

1:19.2

That's the question.

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