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What Other Industries Teach Us About Investing
By Morgan Housel
The Collaborative Fund
“Since it is more productive
to read around one’s field rather
than in one’s field, there are no investing books on this list.”
“The Best Investing Books of 2016”
#1 What Baby Brain Development Teaches Us About Investing
Newborn 6 months 2 years 4 years 6 years
University of Vermont
Median stock underperformed by 54%
2/3 of all stocks underperformed the overall index return
40% of companies lost money over the period
7% of companies outperformed by more than 2,000%0
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“The man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.”
Good investing is not about making great decisions; it’s about consistently not screwing up.
#2 What Running Teaches Us About Investing
“Our bodies are machines, whose energy expenditures may be closely measured.”
“To tell you the truth, we don’t do it because it is useful, but because it’s amusing.”
“There is more in athletics than sheer chemistry.”
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What makes the market tick?
Barron's, Nov. 2009: "The Easy Money's Been Made"
Morningstar, Dec. 2010: "The Easy Money Has been Made"
MarketWatch, Nov. 2011: "The easy money has already been made"
TheStreet, May 2012: "The Easy Money Has Been Made"
Morningstar, Dec. 2013: "The Easy Money Has Been Made"
Barron's, Oct. 2014: "The Easy Money Has Been Made"
CNBC, March 2015: "The easy Money has been made”
Globe and Mail, April 2016: “The Easy Money has been made”
Barron’s, October 2016: “The Easy Money has been made”
The Fool-Proof Investing Formula
Dividend Yield + Earnings Growth +/- Change in Valuations
“The purpose of the margin of safety is to render the forecast unnecessary.”
Room for error is the only way to navigate a world that is impossible to predict.
Compounding only works when you give it time.
#3 What Nuclear Energy Teaches Us About Investing
What stocks did in your teens and 20s
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Luck of the draw
•Grew up during the Great Depression = Half as likely to invest in stocks compared to growing up in the 1960s.
•Grew up during 1970s = 1/3 as likely to invest in bonds later in life compared to growing up in the 1950s.
•Grew up during the 1980s = 2x more likely to buy stocks compared to growing up in the 1970s.
"Our findings suggest that individual investors'
willingness to bear risk depends on personal history.”
Daniel Kahneman
•Talk to as many people as you can.
•Talk to people you disagree with.
•Talk to people who are in different emotional states than you are.
#4 What the War on Cancer Teaches Us About Investing
• Spend less money than you make
• Save the difference
• Buy a diverse portfolio of great companies
• Be patient
Assessment of Confidence Limits of Selected Values of Complex-Valued Models
How to Succeed at investing How Investing is Taught
5.1% Annual Outperformance
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Outperformance
Average PE Fund: 13.5%
Berkshire Hathaway: 18.6%
Fees (4%)
"More investors don’t copy our model because our model is too simple. Most people believe you
can't be an expert if it's too simple.“
“How did Berkshire's track record happen? If you were an observer, you'd see that Warren did most of it sitting on his ass and reading.”
“I visualized my grief if the stock market went way up and I wasn’t in
it — or if it went way down and I was completely in it. So I split my
contributions 50/50 between stocks and bonds.”
Take a simple idea and take it seriously.
The goal of investing isn’t to minimize boredom; it’s to maximize returns.
No investment is worth it if clients can’t stick with it.
#5 What the Wright Brothers Teach Us About Investing Mistakes
"I used to chat with them in a friendly way, because I sort of felt sorry for them. They seemed like well-meaning, decent enough young men. Yet there they
were, wasting their time day after day on that ridiculous flying machine.”
-- Luther Beard, managing editor of the Dayton Herald
“Not one reporter bothered to attend during this time. Nor did public interest increase. With few
exceptions there seemed no public interest at all, no local excitement or curiosity or sense of wonder over
the miraculous thing happening right in Dayton’s own backyard.”
-- David McCullough
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JSE Minimum and Maximum Annual Returns By Holding Period1900-2013
The central problem investors have with stocks is underestimating the amount of time needed to put the odds of long-term success in their favor.
When progress is measured generationally, results shouldn’t be measured quarterly.
People don’t get what they want or what they expect from markets,
they get what they deserve.