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🗓️ 9 September 2015
⏱️ 15 minutes
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You can’t predict the future of the stock market, but you can try to find businesses that have many possible futures. David Gardner shares four traits for finding companies with possible optionality.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner. |
| 0:07.0 | And welcome back to this week's Rule Breaker Investing Podcast. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm David Gardner. |
| 0:14.3 | Thank you so much for tuning in. |
| 0:15.9 | And telling your friends and family about this podcast, |
| 0:18.4 | because let's face it, Rule Breaker Investing |
| 0:20.8 | should be shared with everyone and I mean absolutely everyone but |
| 0:24.8 | especially anybody that you love okay speaking of love we won't be talking |
| 0:29.3 | about that this week we'll be talking about the future. The future is that which is yet to be. I love |
| 0:37.0 | the etymology of words. I went in to see if there was some really interesting |
| 0:40.4 | history of where the word future came from. |
| 0:43.1 | Turns out, not really. |
| 0:44.0 | It's just from Futuris, the Latin, basically |
| 0:47.3 | the future participle of the word for to be essay. |
| 0:51.5 | So the future of what will be goes right back to the Romans. |
| 0:55.0 | Futurists, future that which is yet to be. |
| 0:58.0 | Really important for investing. |
| 0:59.0 | In fact, that's where all your returns are going to come from, we hope, the future. |
| 1:05.0 | That's what you need with my help to piece together as we figure out which stocks to pick and which ones not to pick. |
| 1:14.0 | The future is all that really matters to me anyway at any given moment, |
| 1:19.0 | especially as an investor. |
| 1:20.0 | And I want to talk about one future versus many futures this week. |
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