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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

91- Qualities of a Great CEO

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com Happy New Year! This week on InvestED we continue discussing how to find CEOs and management with integrity and talent. Since we already discussed how to spot a bad CEO, we wanted to spend a minute giving you qualities of great CEOs for comparison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody this is this is Phil Town and this is Danielle Town

0:09.1

and welcome to Invest in the podcast that's teaching us all about how the best investors in the world and I mean by that

0:16.7

The people who have been investing for many many years with very high rates of return how these people are doing it

0:23.0

Long-term investors that make great, great, great, huge returns, returns that are so high

0:29.6

that the SEC that the academic world just simply don't believe that these returns are even true.

0:39.5

They know they're true.

0:40.4

It's not that they're not true.

0:42.3

They're true. It's just they can't believe that they're not true. They're true.

0:43.0

It's just they can't believe that they're really doing it year after year after year.

0:47.0

Because in the view of modern portfolio theory, which is how your money is invested,

0:52.0

it is impossible to beat the market. And yet these

0:56.4

investors led by Warren Buffett, even before Buffett, Ben Graham who taught

1:00.8

Buffett, and investors that we like to call rulers for Rule 1

1:04.4

style investing focus aggressively on not losing money and by picking

1:11.5

companies that are very underpriced,

1:14.0

they're able to make returns well in excess of 20 to 25 percent per year

1:19.0

year after year after year for decades

1:22.0

when this is thought to be impossible by the by the rest of the

1:24.9

market and so we're really exploring in the podcast how that's done and my daughter

1:29.8

Danielle is here trying to decide if she can make it work for herself, which is what this is all about.

1:37.0

Yes, excellent long introduction.

1:40.0

Thank you.

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