Phil Fisher Investing Tip On Cash-Rich Stocks
I was re-reading Phil Fisher’s Conservative Investors Sleep Well and was going through the “What About Dividends?” chapter (which is also included in his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits as...
View ArticleDo Not Invest In Bank Stocks For Retirement
Regarding dividends, the famous professor and investor Phil Fisher once said: “This brings us to what is probably the most important but least discussed aspect of dividends. This is regularity or...
View ArticleHow To Create A Million-Dollar Fortune With Blue-Chip Stocks
If you are serious about creating substantial wealth over the course of your lifetime, one of the most important things that should be the first priority in your life is getting the rich infrastructure...
View ArticleShould You Sell Stock That You Inherit From Your Parents?
The most common question that I have received through the contact form of this site is from beginning investors that suddenly find themselves in the position of receiving a sum of money that creates a...
View ArticlePeter Lynch On Dividend Stocks
Peter Lynch once said that the most important decision that someone makes when constructing a portfolio is deciding what percentage of the portfolio should be put in stocks, and what percentage of the...
View ArticleGeneral Mills: Blue-Chip Quality Trumps Valuation
Probably the most frequently asked question that I have ever gotten from readers is some variation of this: With the recent stock price increases of the past four years in mind, does it still make...
View ArticleIf Your Employer Is Trying To Fire You
I was reading through one of my cases about a contract dispute between an employee and an employer, and there were a couple of things I picked up from the case that I thought would be worth mentioning...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Tobacco Investing Revisited
A great question from reader Joe left as a comment on a previous article: Tim, This question isn’t directly related to this post but I’d still like to get your thoughts on an investing concern that has...
View ArticleWhy The Stock Market Crash of 2008-2009 Was Not Scary
On page 22/23 of his work One Up On Wall Street, Peter Lynch explained why the stock market declines of 1990 bothered him a lot more than those of 1987: “While the 1987 decline scared a lot of people...
View ArticleA Great Piece of Advice From Seth Klarman’s Margin Of Safety
In Seth Klarman’s book Margin of Safety, which has become a cult classic due to its excellent wisdom and the fact that Klarman ran a limited edition 5,000 copy print of the book (which regularly sells...
View ArticleHow To Find Long-Term Dividend Stock Ideas
Sometimes, I hear from investors that are interested in investing, and don’t mind spending a few years per week thinking about stocks, but don’t necessarily have the time or inclination to elevate that...
View ArticleShould You Buy High Dividend Stocks?
According to the search engine terms that drive people to this site, one of the most common questions is about whether someone should purchase the common stocks of companies with a high dividend yield....
View ArticleLife Is About More Than Investing
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf...
View ArticleWhat Separates Excellent Investors from Good Investors
From June of 1990, American States Water has been an excellent investment by just about any metric you could identify. The California utility is perhaps one of the most understandable businesses in the...
View ArticleA Single Cash-Generating Business Is The Foundation of Long-Term Wealth Building
According to page 8 of Dr. Thomas Stanley’s research in the book “The Millionaire Next Door”, people that are self-employed make up less than 20% of American workers yet they constitute almost 70% of...
View ArticleHow William Danforth, Founder of Ralston-Purina, Changes My Life Everyday
The second and third order world effects that William Danforth has had on our civilization are staggering. Although most of the 300+ million people going to bed at night in the United States have no...
View ArticleAndrew Kahr: The Man Responsible For High Credit Card Fees, Interest Rates,...
There is a BP gas station by where I live that uses a deceptive business practice to cajole people into patronizing it. The gas station owner posts a price that is $0.20 below the Shell Oil station...
View ArticleWhy You Invest With Your Mind, Not A Calculator
A justifiable but ultimately flawed investing impulse is to rely solely on the numbers we see from a company rather than thinking about the qualitative aspects of the investment itself. Some of this...
View ArticleEastman Kodak, Instagram, And The Urgency To Invest
Some of you may already be familiar with this statistic that has been making the internet rounds: at its absolute peak, Eastman-Kodak was able to employ more than 140,000 people across the world,...
View ArticleA Great Reader E-Mail About Coca-Cola Investing
One thing I have strong mixed emotions about is my terrible track record of responding to reader e-mails. At my current rate, I’m only responding back to about one out of every fifteen or so that spend...
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