Essays From Yesterday, Vol. 7

Rule Breaker Investing

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Business, Investing, Invest, Rulebreaker, Stocks, Company, Growth, Stockmarket, Fool, Foolish

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

It's time once again to dust off David's old writings and pull some lessons forward into the light of today. We discuss re-recs and buying stocks that you already own, annual predictions, risk ratings, and keeping a record of your investment decisions. We look back to be smarter about looking forward!

(5:52) Introduction to May 2003 Issue
(16:00) New Year's Resolution
(24:47) Risk Ratings For New Members
(32:35) What is in Front of One's Nose

Companies Discussed: BIDU, FSLR, AMZN, GILD, NVDA

Host: David Gardner
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	Pst, I got a secret for you. Actually, it's a secret weapon for you as an investor today.
0:07.2	One word for you. And no, it's not plastics. It's history. History. It's secret because most people
0:17.6	don't have much of it. They follow financial media outlets, which through TV
0:21.8	and social media display and promote such a short memory, quoting stocks minute to minute,
0:28.9	throwing the bells and whistles of our attention at whatever's just happened. Well, as a fool,
0:34.8	I love to look back. The lessons we really learn, learn, and earn are a consequence of observing and living through history, measured in years, not hours or days.
0:48.9	Well, for years, I wrote short essays to kick off our monthly, motley fool issues. I'm air quoting as I say that,
0:57.1	because they used to be snail mail mailed out to members back in the day. Well, today,
1:01.7	the Motley Fool is, of course, pretty much fully digital. We don't do paper copies anymore,
1:06.1	and we don't do opening essays. But I put a lot of time into those essays, and they occurred over a long narrative arc
1:14.6	of market history, 2002 to 2017, 15 years' worth of investing lessons in Motley Fool Stock
1:23.1	Advisor and Rule Breakers.
1:25.0	So in this world of now, now, now, I say you and I open up April 2025
1:31.4	by getting smarter, happier, and richer today for the lessons learned from yesterday.
1:39.8	Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.
1:43.9	It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Full co-founder, David Gardner.
1:51.5	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:54.7	March market cap madness.
1:56.4	Most of the madness, even the sports madness, is just about over. We had a lovely mailbag last week,
2:02.6	really enjoyed that. Thank you all for your wonderful notes. I enjoyed sharing my 20 favorite
2:07.8	words especially, but that was then. This is now. And let's get into it. Essays from yesterday,
2:15.8	volume seven. This is the seventh in the series,
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