5 Sustainable Sources of Competitive Advantage

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🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Morgan Housel of the Collaborative Fund is back to discuss five ways businesses and investors can have a sustainable competitive advantage over the competition. We’ll also answer your question about why stocks get crushed even when they beat earnings expectations and take a pop quiz in famous failures.

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0:29.4	This is Motleyful Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,
0:33.6	personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. Hi, Allison. Hello!
0:38.3	In this week's episode, Morgan Housel is back to discuss finding your sustainable advantage,
0:42.3	whether that's an investing, business, or just life in general.
0:45.3	We'll also answer your question about why stocks that beat earnings estimates still get clobbered,
0:51.3	and take a pop quiz and failure.
0:52.3	All that and more in this week's episode of Molly Full Answers.
0:56.5	It's time for Answers!
0:57.4	Answers!
0:58.4	And for those of you who have not been listening to the podcast for very long, I should
1:01.3	probably introduce you to Morgan Housel.
1:03.0	Hi Morgan.
1:04.0	Hi, you are back.
1:05.0	So Morgan used to write for The Fool.
1:07.0	He had a very successful popular column column, and then he left us.
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