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David Gardner on Rule Breakers, Rule Makers, and Financial Freedom For All

Motley Fool Money

The Motley Fool

Business, Investing

4.43K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Before you make the rules, you might have to break the rules.

Chris Hill talks with David Gardner, co-founder of The Motley Fool and Chief Rule Breaker, about:

- How he taught his children to invest

- Memorable financial lessons from April Fool’s Day pranks in the past

- What happens to rule breaker companies when they grow

- The Fool Foundation’s mission and upcoming online event

To register for the free online event on April 14th with David Gardner, just go to foolfoundation.org.

Stocks discussed: DUOL, AAPL, AMZN, BABA, GOOG, META, DIS, SBUX

Host: Chris Hill
Guest: David Gardner

Producer: Ricky Mulvey

Engineer: Dan Boyd

Transcript

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0:00.0

The real question is just, you know, what to make of it.

0:04.2

I still love to invest in rule makers and I continue to hold that I first owned as rule

0:09.7

breakers like Amazon, continue to own them as rule makers, but I don't think they're

0:15.2

rule breakers anymore.

0:16.9

I think they're rule makers and obviously if they do a bad job, they themselves will be

0:21.3

disrupted.

0:30.0

I'm Chris Hill and that's David Gardner.

0:33.0

On April 1st, who better to hear from than one of the co-founders of the Motley Fool?

0:38.8

Earlier this week I caught up with David to talk about rule breaker investing, memorable

0:43.1

financial pranks from April Fool's days of the past and a new initiative coming later

0:48.6

this month from the Fool Foundation.

0:52.0

If you are at all familiar with David and his brother Tom, you may know their investing

0:56.9

origin story.

0:58.8

Your father taught them about investing when they were kids and one of the ways he did

1:02.7

that was by helping them connect the investing world with the products in their lives they

1:07.8

were already familiar with.

1:09.9

And since April is financial literacy month, I started our conversation by asking if David

1:16.0

took the same approach with his own children when he wanted them to learn about investing.

1:24.7

So I would say it was very similar Chris in that our dad classically when we were little

1:29.4

kids took us to the safe way in Washington DC in our neighborhood and said, hey kids look

1:34.5

chocolate pudding.

1:36.7

We own some of the company that makes that chocolate pudding a few shares anyway.

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