Investment Principles from the Greatest Investors

💼📖 Jim Rogers

Global Investing

The best opportunities are often outside your home country. Look at the whole world.

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📝📖 Stanley Druckenmiller

The Soros Lesson

Its not whether youre right or wrong thats important, its how much money you make when youre right.

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📌📖 Stanley Druckenmiller

Bet Big When Right

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you ...

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📌📖 Jim Simons

Find the Mathematical Edge

You only need to be right 50.75% of the time to make a fortune. A small edge, applied consistently across thousands of t...

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🌐📖 David Swensen

True Diversification

Diversification is the only free lunch in investing. True diversification means owning assets that behave differently fr...

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🛡️📖 Duan Yongping

Insist on Margin of Safety

Never pay more than a business is worth. Wait for prices that provide a significant margin of safety. Being patient for ...

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📌📖 William Gann

Gann Angles

The 45-degree angle, or 1x1 line, is the most important. It represents a balanced relationship where price moves one uni...

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💼📖 Julian Robertson

Invest in People

Back exceptional management teams. Great managers can turn around mediocre businesses; poor managers can destroy great o...

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📌📖 Carl Icahn

Corporate Restructuring

Many companies are worth more broken up than as a whole. Spin-offs and restructuring can unlock tremendous value.

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📖 Paul Tudor Jones

Timing Matters

Being right about direction is not enough; you must be right about timing. A great idea at the wrong time is a losing tr...

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📈📖 Jesse Livermore

Trade Market Leaders

Trade the leading stocks in leading groups. The leaders show the way for the rest of the market.

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🏢📖 Bill Ackman

Simple, Predictable Businesses

Invest in simple businesses with predictable cash flows. Complexity creates uncertainty and analytical error.

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📌📖 Joel Greenblatt

Special Situations

Spinoffs, mergers, and restructurings create opportunities where value is mispriced.

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🎯📖 Jeremy Grantham

Patient Contrarianism

Being early is the same as being wrong. But in the long run, fundamentals always win.

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💎📖 John Neff

Contrarian Value

Buy when others are selling. The best opportunities are in stocks that are out of favor.

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🎯📖 Li Lu

China Opportunity

China represents one of the greatest investment opportunities of our time. Understand its unique dynamics.

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📌📖 Jim Rogers

Do Your Homework

Research exhaustively before investing. The person who knows the most usually wins.

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📌📖 Stanley Druckenmiller

Follow Liquidity

Liquidity drives markets. When central banks print money, asset prices rise. Follow the money.

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📌📖 George Soros

Survive First

My approach works not by making valid predictions but by allowing me to correct false ones. I am only rich because I kno...

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📈📖 Jim Simons

Machine Learning in Markets

Markets generate massive amounts of data. Machine learning algorithms can detect subtle patterns and relationships that ...

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📌📖 David Swensen

Embrace Alternatives

Alternative investments like private equity, venture capital, and real assets provide superior returns and diversificati...

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🎯📖 Duan Yongping

Concentrate Your Portfolio

If you truly understand a business and it's undervalued, why diversify? Concentration in your best ideas maximizes retur...

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📌📖 William Gann

Square of Nine

The Square of Nine arranges numbers in a spiral pattern, revealing price levels of support and resistance. Key angles on...

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📌📖 Julian Robertson

Macro Overlay

Combine bottom-up stock picking with top-down macro awareness. Understanding the economic environment helps you position...

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📌📖 Carl Icahn

Contrarian Conviction

When everyone hates a stock, thats often when the best opportunities emerge. Buy when others are selling in panic.

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💰📖 Paul Tudor Jones

Price Action is Truth

At the end of the day, the market tells you whether youre right or wrong. Listen to price action, not your thesis.

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📌📖 Jesse Livermore

Pyramid Correctly

Only add to winning positions. Your first commitment should be smallest; add more only as profits grow.

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📌📖 Bill Ackman

Asymmetric Upside

Structure positions with limited downside and significant upside potential. The best trades make many times your risk.

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📌📖 Joel Greenblatt

Simplicity Wins

Complex strategies rarely beat simple ones. The best investment approach is one you can understand and stick to.

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🎯📖 Jeremy Grantham

Asset Allocation Focus

Most returns come from asset allocation, not security selection. Get the big picture right first.

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