Investment Principles from the Greatest Investors

📌📖 Carl Icahn

Skin in the Game

Put your own money where your mouth is. Large personal investments align your interests with other shareholders.

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📌📖 Paul Tudor Jones

The 200-Day Rule

Pay attention to the 200-day moving average. When prices break below it, be very cautious. Its one of the most important...

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💡📖 Jesse Livermore

Know Yourself

The game taught me the game. It takes time to learn your own weaknesses and strengths as a trader.

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📚📖 Bill Ackman

Learn from Mistakes

Analyze your failures rigorously. The best lessons come from your worst losses.

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📌📖 Joel Greenblatt

Spinoff Opportunities

Spinoffs are often mispriced because institutional investors are forced sellers. Study them carefully.

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📌📖 Jeremy Grantham

Ignore Animal Spirits

Markets are driven by psychology in the short term. Ignore the noise and focus on fundamentals.

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⚠️📖 John Neff

Manage Downside Risk

Low P/E stocks have built-in downside protection. The expectations are already low.

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💎📖 Li Lu

Intellectual Honesty

Be honest about what you know and dont know. Admitting ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

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📚📖 Jim Rogers

Learn History

Study financial history. Markets repeat patterns because human nature doesnt change.

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📚📖 Stanley Druckenmiller

Continuous Learning

Markets evolve. Keep learning and adapting. What worked yesterday may not work tomorrow.

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📉🎩 Warren Buffett

When to Sell

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?

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🎩 Warren Buffett

Admit Mistakes

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more producti...

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📌🎩 Warren Buffett

Courage to Act

Have the courage to act when opportunity presents itself. Hesitation leads to missed opportunities.

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📍🎩 Warren Buffett

Gradual Position Building

I never try to buy at the bottom and I always buy too early. But that doesn't matter because I have long-term goals.

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💰🎩 Warren Buffett

Dollar Cost Averaging

If you like spending six to eight hours per week working on investments, do it. If you don't, then dollar-cost average i...

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📖🎩 Warren Buffett

Research Before Buying

Do your homework before buying anything. Thorough research is the best way to avoid risk.

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💎🎩 Warren Buffett

Value Reversion

In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.

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📈🎩 Warren Buffett

Contrarian Buying

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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🎯🎩 Warren Buffett

Opportunity in Crisis

A climate of fear is your friend when investing; a euphoric world is your enemy.

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🏛️🎩 Warren Buffett

Great Company in Temporary Trouble

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble.

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🎯🎩 Warren Buffett

Concentrated Portfolio

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

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🎯📈 Peter Lynch

Focus Advantage

The more stocks you own, the more time you have to spend tracking them.

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🎩 Warren Buffett

Wait for Fat Pitch

The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything — you can wait for your pitch.

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🌳📈 Peter Lynch

Long-term Perspective

The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.

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📌🎩 Warren Buffett

Path to Financial Freedom

Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.

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📌📈 Peter Lynch

Small Cap Opportunities

Professionals are often precluded from investing in small companies.

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🎩 Warren Buffett

Avoid Market Timing

The idea that you can time the market is just not true... You can't do it.

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🎯📈 Peter Lynch

No Pressure Decisions

You don't have to be right on every stock.

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🧠🎩 Warren Buffett

Think Like an Owner

I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am an investor.

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💡📈 Peter Lynch

Industry Knowledge

If you work in an industry, you have an edge in that industry.

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