27 years ago this week I went down to Kinko's printed out a thousand copies of a paper newsletter

trundled over to the post office in the first edition of something called the Motley Fool

was sent off to friends and family. It cost $48 a year and not many people subscribed. Well fast forward to today 27 years later and as we published this week it's the Motley Fool's

birthday and instead of asking you for $48 a year this podcast costs nothing hasn't for five years asks simply for a different form of investment from you

an investment of your time.

This week we return to one of our longest running series,

it's great quotes, volume 12, on our birthday. Only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing.

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast

with Motley full co-founder David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. So good to have you with me this week.

Here we are recording on the final day of June, but you'll be hearing this on the 1st of July. happy July and certainly for those of us in the

United States this is a special week every week it is our nation's birthday it's

also the Motley Fool's birthday this week as I mentioned at the top June 30th is traditionally

the day that we associate with the formation of the Motley Fool because it was the day that I was at

Kinko's and then the post office sending off a thousand copies.

It was just about exactly 1,000 copies.

I remember, how did I get a thousand people on my list?

Well, our cousin had recently gotten married in North Dakota of all places.

And so he gave us his wedding list.

And I had my high school graduation list, my class,

and Tom had his, and we just kind of brought together as many lists as we could and just mailed off our

newsletter. It was called the Motley Fool, a phrase that I had pulled from Shakespeare

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