This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by

Roberto Brocampo, personal finance expert here at The Motley Fool. Hello, bro. Hello,

Alicino or something like that. That was awful. We'll maybe do better next time.

So, this week's episode, we are going to share with you the Motley Fool's seven don'ts

for successful investing over the long haul.

All that and more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.

So, Allison, what's up? Well, in the past, bro, we've brought our dear

listeners stories of the lives of famous investors like Jack Bogle, John Templeton, and others.

So today, I'm going to bring you the life so far of another famously successful investor.

So, if I say the name, Robert Smith, chances are that name doesn't ring a bell.

Or if you're a Gen Xer, like Rick, then, yeah, the name does ring a bell.

But no, I'm not here to talk about the lead singer of the cure.

Otherwise, Robert Smith is a generic name that doesn't likely make you think of someone

famous, which is too bad because Robert F. Smith is someone worth knowing. And today, I'm going to

give you a book report, essentially on Robert Smith, the successful investor, philanthropist,

and up until recently, quietly one of the richest men in the world and the richest African American.

Yes, richer than Oprah, someone I know you've heard of.

All right, here we go.

I pulled most of my information from articles in the New York Times and Washington Post.

Funny enough, both of them were titled, both of the articles were titled,

who is Robert Smith?

And then also a bunch of articles from Forbes.com.

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