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InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

92 - The 3 Most Important Words of Investing [MoS]

InvestED: The Rule #1 Investing Podcast

Phil Town & Danielle Town

Business, Investing

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This week on InvestED podcast we are continuing our back to basics series with a look into Charlie Munger’s 4th principle: Margin of Safety. We will take a look at how investing in the stock market isn’t much different than investing in real estate and why the same 10-year rule applies. We will also reveal why Margin of Safety may just be the most important words of investing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is Phil Towne

0:06.5

this is Phil Towne and we're here for the invested podcast we're

0:10.9

real excited to be with you guys. On this podcast, as you probably

0:14.4

know by now, we are talking about how the best investors in the world make 20, 30 percent

0:19.6

per year compounded with, I know know with less risk than most people taking a

0:25.6

mutual fund. And they do it... What else are you going to sell me dad? And they do it. All right, now listen, they do it incredibly regularly over long

0:39.4

long periods of time. We're talking 30, 40 years compounded at high rates of return like that and the

0:45.8

key is are you ready the key is to buy investments those are businesses whether they're public or private, you buy

0:54.9

investments where you have a high degree of certainty that you're going to be selling it 10 years

1:00.0

out for more money than you paid for it.

1:03.0

Oh, so who knows what will happen in the interim 10 years, but on the magical 10-year

1:08.4

mark, you will be able to sell it for more money than you put in.

1:11.6

Yeah, you bring up an interesting point.

1:13.1

Do we really care about what happens between year one

1:15.8

and year 10?

1:17.0

And the answer is, yeah, naturally we do,

1:18.7

because we're watching our retirement.

1:21.2

But the right way to be in this game emotionally is whenever you buy something you think of the 10 10 rule

1:34.0

Yeah, I thought you might ask that. The...

1:35.0

What's the 10-10 rule, Dad?

1:37.0

The 10-10 rule.

1:39.0

Can you tell it to me?

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