May Mailbag: Why Great Leaders Matter, Sometimes

Rule Breaker Investing

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🗓️ 31 May 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

It is the last day of the month, which means, as always, it’s mailbag time! Today David looks at the Great Man Theory vs. the Cultural View of investing, whether to invest a little bit at a time or in big lump sums, and why the market’s P/E ratio shouldn’t guide your investing decisions. Plus, another misattributed quote and quite possibly a dirty joke!

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0:22.1	it's the rule breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
0:27.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
0:31.0	I'm David Gardner, so pleased to have you with me this week.
0:34.3	It is the last week of May. In fact, it is the week of Fool Fest. So if you're a Motley Fool member,
0:40.5	you might have gotten an invitation to this year's Foolfest that you may or may not have taken us up on.
0:44.7	I'm happy to say it's sold out once again this year, so we'll be seeing hundreds and hundreds of members coming in from around the country, in some cases the world world a little bit later this week always a
0:54.6	highlight for us here in Alexandria Virginia at Fool HQ.
0:58.1	So if I'm going to see you at Foolfest please please show me your Rule Breaker investing secret handshake.
1:05.0	All right, so it is mailbag.
1:08.0	And I've got about 9 or 10 queued up, as it seems I have every time this time of the month.
1:13.6	What's not usual for this time of the month is usually I've gotten more sleep
1:17.1	but for whatever reason my dog whom we let sleep in our bedroom every day for the last 13 years awoke me at 253 a.m. this
1:25.8	morning and I could never fall back to sleep.
1:29.6	So woken up by his dog doing rule breaker investing on about three hours of sleep. I'll try to be
1:34.8	worthy of your time this week. First one up, this is an email that came in from Jerry
1:40.6	Lynch. Gerald Lynch, appreciated this one.
1:43.0	Jerry, you said, dear David, the Motley Fool's approach to stock analysis has been profitable
1:47.5	for me.
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