Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 4

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Seems like only yesterday we were traveling back in time. Wait a minute... maybe it was yesterday. Maybe it is yesterday! In any case, we're back in our time machines again, so rev up the Delorean, close the phone booth, and adjust your sonic screwdriver — we're looking back on some essays from yesteryear and seeing what they can teach us today.

(4:42) A 14-Bagger's 14 Lessons
(13:48) Two Small Innovations
(20:27) Miss Chipotle Regrets?
(33:23) The Beating Heart of Rule Breakers

Companies Discussed: DIS, ADBE, CMG, TSLA, SSYS, PRLB

Host: David Gardner
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	For years and years I wrote essays and Motley Fool Stock Advisor and Motley Fool
0:06.7	Rule Breaker's essays to kick off the issues. So it would be May 2008.
0:12.1	Wow, remember 2008? 15 years ago and in addition to our new stock picks and best buys now that month,
0:20.0	the mailed issue of rule breakers let off with a page 1 essay from me and same with the next month and the month after that for years.
0:29.0	Recognize any old school references, phrases like issues,
0:33.2	mailed issues.
0:34.8	These days our services are digital.
0:36.6	We don't do paper copies anymore.
0:39.0	We don't do opening essays either.
0:40.8	There's no page one anymore. It simply wouldn't get the clicks. But I put a lot
0:47.2	of time into those essays and as they occurred over a long narrative arc of history, 2002 to 2017, 15 years worth of them. It can be both
0:57.8	educational and amusing to go back and see what was being said when. The purpose of the motley fool is to make the
1:05.3	world smarter, happier, and richer, and that's exactly what I was trying to do with those
1:09.6	essays over the years. So I've pulled some favorites with some timeless truths. I want to introduce
1:15.2	or for a long time fools reintroduce you to our rule breaker thinking over time this week. But this isn't
1:21.8	nostalgia or about yesterday,
1:24.4	because I think it might just be an excellent way
1:26.6	to educate, amuse, and enrich you today.
1:31.6	Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:34.0	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Fool Co-founder David Gardner.
1:41.0	All right, now let's get into it.
1:46.4	Essays from yesterday, volume four.
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