Why and How to Invest, with Tom and David Gardner

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

There's no substitute for being invested with skin in the game in the world at large. In this weekend conversation, Co-founders of The Motley Fool Tom and David Gardner explain why. In this discussion the Gardners cover: - How investing fits into the pursuit of becoming smarter, happier, richer - The importance of being a lifelong learner and investor - Using index funds and how to approach buying individual stocks - Two core Motley Fool approaches -- Rule Breaker and Everlasting investing philosophies - Setting the right expectations for returns - Mastering the mindset of investing and managing volatility If you aren't already a listener, check out David Gardner's Rule Breaker Investing podcast at RBI.Fool.com And you can follow Tom and David on Twitter @TomGardnerFool and @davidgfool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's no substitute for being invested with Skid in the game in the world at large and
0:05.4	it does have you once you do that paying attention far more than if you weren't.
0:13.6	I'm Chris Hill and that was David Gardner.
0:16.8	Today on Motley Full Money we're stepping back from news of the day to have a broader conversation
0:21.9	about the pillars of investing success and how to set yourself up to be a lifelong learner
0:27.4	and investor.
0:29.0	And who better to do that than the co-founders of the Motley Full, Tom and David Gardner?
0:34.4	They share lessons they learned from people like Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch, key elements
0:39.2	of core foolish investing styles and some of the things they look for in companies before
0:45.8	they invest in them.
0:47.6	Think of this as the greatest investing class you never got the chance to take in school.
0:58.6	I'm Tom Gardner with my brother David, co-founders of the Motley Full, spending the first half
1:04.2	hour class of this series talking about why we invest and how we invest.
1:10.6	And really the Motley Full Wave investing, David, thank you so much for spending the
1:13.5	half hour here.
1:14.5	You bet.
1:15.5	Let's do it.
1:16.5	Why do you invest?
1:17.7	Well, I think the most obvious reason to invest is that you are hoping to make some money
1:24.1	in order to do something in life.
1:26.5	And a lot of people think of it in terms of retirement.
1:29.8	They think they'd like at some point to not have to go to their day job, whatever that
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