Investment and Life Lessons - Part 20

Here's the PART 20 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

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1. Thus the master makes things change without interfering. She is probing yet causes no harm. Straightforward, yet does not impose her will. Radiant, and easy on the eye - Lao Tzu

2. Do not meddle with people’s livelihood; by respecting them they will in turn respect you - Lao Tzu

3. The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry - Lao Tzu

4. Only he who is the lowest servant of the kingdom, is worthy of becoming its ruler. He who is willing to tackle the most unpleasant tasks, is the best ruler in the world. True sayings seem contradictory - Lao Tzu

5. The Tao of Heavens nourishes by not forcing. The Tao of the Wise Person acts by not competing - Lao Tzu

6. Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god  ― Aristotle

7. What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease - Sun Tzu

8. Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory - Sun Tzu

9. The helpful orientation of performance management is that “to rate” is not the end in view - but to enable the employees to realize the goals. - Prof. Rachel Consunji

10. Mahalaga ang pagpansin - Rachel Consunji

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 19

Here's the PART 19 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

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1. Competition keeps you in condition

2. Forbidding is forbidden to us - Mosley

3. Short-term investors will accept a 20% gain because they didn’t spend the time to develop the conviction and foresight to see the next 500% - Ian Cassel

4. If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state - Cicero

5. What Susie says of Sally says more of Susie than of Sally

6. The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem - Naval

7. The important thing to remember is not to forget

8. Money will not solve all your problems, but it will solve all your money problems

9. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who[m] you want, for as long as you want to, pays the highest dividend that exists in finance - Housel

10. Someone who says "I am busy" is either declaring incompetence (and lack of control of his life) or trying to get rid of you. - @nntaleb

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 18

 Here's the PART 18 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

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1. Beauty is a form of Genius, - is higher indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has the divine right of sovereignty. - Oscar Wilde

2. Beauty makes no argument, yet ends them all.

3. ‪It seems most of modern human problems root from the misunderstanding of statistics‬ - KPV

4. Your biggest fan is a stranger, your biggest hater is someone you know 

5. Gold is money. Everything else is credit. - John Pierpont Morgan

6. Men have two lives and the second one starts when he realizes he only has one - Confucius

7. Work is better when you don't need the money - MMM

8. As in all things, sequence matters - Billions

9. Necessity is the mother of innovation

10. Sex so good the neighbors complain

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 17

Here's the PART 17 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

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1. The lucky man says it’s smarts. The unlucky man says it’s luck. The smart man says nothing.
2. You borrow at 3% lend at 6% play golf by 3pm - british banking adage
3. "The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most - Robert Kiyosaki
4. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary ― N. N. Taleb
5. Escape competition through authenticity - Naval
6. To create things, you have to be a rational optimist - Naval
7. Either you lead, follow or get out of the way - Naval
8. I’d rather teach an engineer, marketing than a marketer, engineering
9. If you failed, that means you’re doing something. If you’re doing something, you have a chance - Robert Kiyosaki
10. The first biological lesson of history is life is a competition - Durrant

Top 7 Rules in Investing by Warren Buffett

Encountered a really good Youtube video discussing the Top 7 rules in investing by the legendary investor, Warren E. Buffett.

I really enjoyed and found it quite valuable hence I've decided to share it with you guys!

Below is the summary of the Top 7 rules in investing by Warren Buffett compiled by John Pantoja and the complete video from Cooper Academy for your reading and viewing pleasure.

Enjoy and keep on learning! #InvesingNeverStops

1. If the business does well, the stock eventually follows

When you own a stock, you own a part of the business. If the business does well, you will also do well.

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 16

Here's the PART 16 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

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1. We have to play the hand we are dealt - John Wooden

2. Small things make big things happen - John Wooden

3. Promise chocolate, bring wine

4. Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.~Suntzu, The Art of War

5. The hungry never gets fed

6. Every single day that you wake up, Remember that you are then the youngest you will ever be. Most do Not run the Age numbers this way.

7. No bird soars in a calm

8. To succeed spectacularly, you have to be willing to fail spectacularly

9. We ignore our suspicions so long as we hold on to our illusions

10. Hesitation killed the samurai.

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 15

Here's the PART 15 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. Good boys go to heaven but bad boys bring heaven to you

2. Festina lente - make haste slowly

3. Small, unsexy, but smart decisions made consistently lead to incomprehensible and incredible returns

4. Even though the results are massive, the steps, in the moment, don't feel significant. The changes are so subtle, they’re almost imperceptible

5. Everything tells me I shall succeed - Bonaparte

6. I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances - Bonaparte

7. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, strike like a thunderbolt - Sun Tzu

8. Choose your battles - Sun Tzu

9. He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight

10. To win 100 battles is not the height of skill, to subdue the enemy without fighting is. - Sun Tzu

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 14

Here's the PART 14 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. You just love the flower so much, it reveals all of its secrets
2. Put an invitation to the world and just leave it
3. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates
4. Find and partner with wonderful people
5. Something that is really worthwhile can take some time before it comes in to fruition - Jim Simons
6. Man has only ever searched for three things in this world, the source of light, the perfect note, and the alabaster girl
7. The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid more than he does - Napoleon Hill
8. The mark of mega successful men is the ability to continue striving despite hitting goals. Most people get some achievement and rest or celebrate their achievements for far too long. The Greats continue striving.
9. Men are visual and women like to be mentally stimulated - Miranda Kerr
10. Steadfastness in the face of adversity. The mark of an admirable man.

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 13

Here's the PART 13 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. 
Cheers!

1.    In any sort of a contest - financial, mental, or physical - it’s an enormous advantage to have opponents who have been taught that it’s useless to even try - Warren Buffett

2.    I look to the past for counsel

3.    No regrets, just lessons learned

4.    Gentlemen don't kiss and tell

5.    It is the fate of kings to do men good and to be hated for it

6.    You are not committed to something unless you are willing to sacrifice for it.

7.    Sacrifice the present for the future

8.    I think the history of finance resonates with one great lesson, and that is, when everybody agrees with something and their borrowing money to bet on it, beware

9.    True wealth is not money. It’s the option to buy what you truly need. If money can’t buy what you need, you’re on even footing with the poorest person out there - Dan Egan

10.  Information that you cannot apply, information that you don't have when you need it is worthless - Illacertus

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 12

Here's the PART 12 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. 

These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. 
Cheers!

1. You can get in a whole lot more trouble in investing with a sound premise than with a false premise. - Benjamin Graham quoted by Warren Buffett

2. In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. - Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche

3. I would bet on people still being people - Cliff Asness

4. Warren Buffett, he made it from investing, that’s how he built the wealth - Kaplan CFA professor

5. What is the definition of an analyst? - often wrong, never in doubt. What’s the definition of portfolio manager? - somebody who keeps listening to analysts - Kaplan CFA professor

6. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken

7. Socratic prudence: drinking enough for pleasure but not too much to cause hangovers

8. Soon you will have forgotten all things, and soon all things would have forgotten you - Marcus Aurelius

9. The weakest link in a chain is the strongest because it can break it - Bloomberg Quote

10. It is man who conceives himself, who propels himself towards existence.

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 11

Here's the PART 11 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. Be grateful for everything and entitled to nothing - Charles Koch
2. After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers - Warren Buffett
3. We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters isto make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children - WB
4. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits - Warren Buffett
5. The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You don't have to swing at everything -- you can wait for your pitch. The problem when you're a money manager is that your fans keep yelling, 'Swing, you bum! - WB
6. I call investing the greatest business in the world ... because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it - WB
7. I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. ... It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's fantastic brand loyalty - WB
8. I don’t let people do projections for me because I don’t like throwing up on the desk. ~Charlie Munger
9. I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. ~Warren Buffett
10. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with great talent. Genius will not: unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent ~Calvin Coolidge

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 10

Here's the PART 10 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. If you want to be great, the very best at what you do, obsession is a necessity
2. I am the problem I will ever have and I am the solution
3. Logic can take you from A to Z but imagination will take you everywhere
4. You don't have to know how. You have to ask, believe and receive
5. A lot of people like to complain but don't do anything about their situation
6. Greatness cannot be achieved without obsession
7. Bad luck disappears when hard work arrives on the scene
8. It’s alright man, we can disagree - Rommel Mampusti

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 9

Here's the PART 9 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm - Sir Winston Churchill
2. Words that everyone once used are now obsolete, and so are the men whose names were once on everyone's lips - Marcus Aurelius
3. Necessity never made a good bargain. - Benjamin Franklin
4. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country - John F. Kennedy
5. Work smart. Get things done. - Susan Wojcicki
6. Can you tell me how our perfect love goes wrong? - Boyz II Men
7. Paranoia ain't the way to live your life from day to day so leave your doubts and your fears behind - N’Sync
8. You have been given the dignity of choice - Jim Rohn

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 8

Here's the PART 8 of our Investment and Life Lessons series. These are the ideas we've gathered from our various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. Our list is getting too long again hence we're sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. (On Quantitative Investment strategies) We have learned that no one is going to be able to stick to these kinds of strategies unless they know a lot about them - POS
2. One of the largest retail foreign exchange dealers in the United States is Foreign Exchange Capital Markets (FXCM). In 2005, Drew Niv, chief executive of FXCM, remarked to the Wall Street Journal “If 15 percent of [currency] day traders are profitable, I’d be surprised.”
3. The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
4. It is my duty to work with men regardless of their nature. I will not be affected by them - Marcus Aurelius
5. Leaders who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say - Andy Stanley
6. We believe in probabilities not possibilities - JOS
7. Self-attribution bias refers to our propensity to ascribe our successes to our skill, while blaming our failures on bad luck, rather than a lack of skill. For example, the stocks we buy that go up show our great stock picking skills, while those we buy that go down do so because of some outside factor, like Congress changing the law or the Federal Reserve increasing interest rates
8. We are predictably irrational - Dan Ariely

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 7

Here's the PART 7 of my previous posts regarding the lessons I've encountered in my various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. My list is getting too long again hence I'm sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. Business shall always supersede politics, because Business is the main reason why we have politics - Daniel Cruz
2. Ego = 1/Knowledge
3. Good judgement comes from experience; Experience comes from bad judgement ~ Barry Lepatner
4. 33% of your life will be spent sleeping. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could make money while asleep?
5. A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains - Dutch Proverb
6. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value - Jim Rohn
7. God gave me a tail to keep off the flies. But I'd rather have had no tail and no flies - Benjamin the Donkey quoted by Jim Simons
8. Be the hardest working person on what you do - Stephen Curry
9. The way for us to get there is to stay in the moment - Stephen Curry
10. Better yourself everyday - Stephen Curry
11. Be yourself, be humble and be grateful for all the blessings in your life - Stephen Curry
12. Action speaks louder than words - Stephen Curry
    

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 6

Here's the PART 6 of my previous posts regarding the lessons I've encountered in my various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war, love and life. My list is getting too long again hence I'm sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. Passion unpracticed, weakens - Tony Robbins
2. The secret to wealth is gratitude - John Templeton
3. The key to living is giving
4. The human brain is designed for survival, it’s not designed for success - Tony Robbins
5. Your brain is not designed to make you happy, that’s your job
6. Skip a meal, but don't skip reading - Jim Rohn
7. Quality is never an accident. It is always a result of intelligent effort. - John Ruskin
8. Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth - Albert Einstein
9. Sometimes we make choices in life, and sometimes, our choices make us
10. Living a life trying to avoid mistakes is living a life of inaction - Warren Buffett
11. The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it - Eckhart Tolle
12. Omniscience isn’t necessary in investing; you only need to know the actions you undertake - Warren Buffett
    

Investment and Life Lessons - Part 5

Here's the part 5 of my previous posts regarding the lessons/quotes I've encountered in my various readings on business, stocks, economy, money, war and life. My list is getting too long again hence I'm sharing it with the Filipino Investors out there for them to learn a thing or two. Cheers!

1. Be like a duck, stay calm on the surface but paddle like hell underneath
2. The few who do are the envy of the many who watch - J.R.
3. Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better - J.R.
4. You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best ones. - Elal Jane Lasola
5. Wall Street's tendency to be forgiving of bullish strategists who end up being wrong..  "If you're a bull and you're wrong, you're forgiven. If you're a bull and you're right, they love you. If you're a bear and you're right, you're respected. If you're a bear and you're wrong, you're fired."
6. To understand is to be free - Baruch Spinoza
7. A thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many - Baruch Spinoza
8. Desire is the very essence of man - Spinoza
9. Warren chooses the kind of business he would like to be in and then lets the price of the security, and thus his expected return, determine the buy decision. (This is like Warren in high school identifying a girl he wants to date and then waiting for her to break up with her boyfriend before beginning his pursuit).
10. Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike - Benjamin Graham
11. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it. - Henry Sy
12. Work more, talk less - Henry Sy