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Rule Breaker Investing

A Rule Breaker's Special Sauce

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

David Gardner shares three principles he uses when evaluating potential rule-breaking investments -- plus several principles from our listeners.

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0:00.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

0:07.0

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. I'm David Gardner.

0:13.2

Very excited this week to go back over some of what I've been seeing on Twitter

0:16.8

over the past week.

0:18.3

Last week, as you'll recall, we talked about seven principles for investors, seven principles for investors,

0:22.7

for those who do what we do for the long term.

0:26.5

That is, we risk some capital and we pick carefully,

0:30.6

we put a lot of effort in on the front end

0:32.4

before we make a decision, and then we usually just let it go a lot of the time just in the best frozen terms

0:38.8

We just let them go and indeed those are many of our best picks the ones that we just

0:44.1

allow to grow over time but I asked at the end of that podcast I bet you have

0:49.2

some principles I've given you seven what's your eighth and I just wanted to share back at the start of this

0:54.7

week's podcast some of my favorites some of the ones that I've seen over the last week in no

0:59.2

particular order Scott answered eighth principal simple two words he wrote fees matter that

1:06.0

Scott who's at golfer 17059 on Twitter and Scott boy do I agree with that you know

1:12.3

it's a wonder to me how few people realize what they are paying for their

1:16.5

financial management every year.

1:18.1

A lot of people just kind of check that box on their

1:25.0

four or one-o-one-K plan, select a few funds.

1:26.0

If you've got a good 401-K plan, I hope you have good choice of funds,

1:30.0

all of which should have low fees. It's called the expense ratio, the amount of

1:35.2

money taken out of your holding each year as a percentage of what you hold. So for example

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