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David Gardner’s Greatest Hits

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Taxes, Saving, Money, Investing, Planning, Retirement, Personalfinance, Finance, Education, Business

4.4823 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

More than 20 years ago The Motley Fool Investment Guide helped launch a revolution by demystifying Wall Street and empowering millions of people to start investing. The newly revised and updated 3rd edition of the book hits stores today and to help celebrate Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner joins us to share some of The Fool’s most timeless investing lessons. Get a copy of the book at book.fool.com.

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Fool.

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This is Motley Full Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

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personal finance expert here at The Motley Fool. Hello, Bro.

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Hello, Alison.

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Today is the release of the completely revised and updated third edition of the Motley Fool Investment Guide.

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First published back in 1996, this book, Demystified Wall Street, and helped countless people learn to invest.

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So, we were able to convince David Gardner.

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Hello, David.

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It didn't really take a lot of arm twisting, I don't think.

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No, I didn't.

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Thanks for inviting me, though.

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This is awesome.

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Let's talk about it.

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I'm excited that you're always willing. You have yet to turn me down when I ask you to come on the show, and I really appreciate that. Of course, David is our fearless co-founder and co-author

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of the book, and so he's here to share some of his classic investing lessons. All that and more

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on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.

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It's time for Answers! And today's question comes from Eric. Eric writes,

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Most stock rating systems classify stocks as either buy, hold, or sell. It seems to me that

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the hold rating should not exist. If the investment thesis for a stock or other investment

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