About John Sculley’s Decision To Fire Steve Jobs
Although John Sculley (thePepsi CEO that left the helm at Steve Jobs’ behest only to sack him later after disagreeing about the future of the company—Jobs wanted to focus on lowering the price and...
View ArticleAqua America: One Of The Last Stocks In The World Offering A 5% Reinvestment...
Back when DRIP programs were rolling out in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the advantages typically offered in such programs was a 5%, 10%, and in some rare cases of budding blue-chips, 15% discount on...
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Financial Success Late In Life Is Nothing To Lament
I love this chart that Anna Vital made that is going viral across the United States. If anything, though, it’s incomplete because it ignores so many people who didn’t start becoming successful in a...
View ArticleWhat Warren Buffett’s Will Can Teach You
On a recent CNBC appearance, Warren Buffett discussed the investment strategy for his will: “Well, I didn’t lay out my whole will. . . . I did explain, because I laid out what I thought the average...
View ArticleMichael Lewis And Flash Traders Do Not Affect Long-Term Investors
One of the things that I find remarkable about investing is that, over long periods of time, the results that you experience tend to mirror the earnings per share growth rate plus dividends of the...
View ArticleThree More Ways To Become A Bad Investor
Cass Sunstein, in a recent Bloomberg article in which he examined the causes of his own personal investing mistakes, reminisced about a dumb selling decision that he made in 2011. Putting himself on...
View ArticleBoston Beer Stock: A Long-Term Look At Intelligent Small-Cap Investing
A question from a reader: Hi tim I know you usually write about large stock dividend investing but was wondering if you would share how to make small sized stock investments in smaller companies The...
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Washington University Students Are Protesting Peabody Energy
Tim, I know you’re from the St. Louis area. You’ve probably heard about the protests from many members of the Washington University student community about Peabody Energy. In general, how do you think...
View ArticleWealthy Families Move Their Trusts To New Hampshire
I spent most of my money studying the long litany of tragedy that has met the Johnson & Johnson heirs and beneficiaries to the great healthcare fortune, and I came across the fact that Ned Johnson...
View ArticleCharlie Munger: The First $100,000 Is A B*tch
A Sunday mailbag from reader Ben: Hello Tim, My name is Ben and i have read most of your articles on seeking alpha. I like your idea of establishing the net worth of $100k and investing them in...
View ArticleGeneral Mills “You Can’t Sue Us” Approach Ticks People Off, Won’t Work In Court
When you make a public strategy, there are generally four quadrants that cover the possible outcomes of your decision. You can do something that is socially popular, and against your self-interest. You...
View ArticleAn Easter Investing Reflection
Good Morning. He has Risen. I was reading parts of the Gospel of John early this morning, and once I got away from that, I drifted into my usual habit of reading through old Wesco transcripts with...
View ArticleDid You See David Winters’ Latest Letter To Warren Buffett About Coca-Cola?
You know how Abraham Lincoln advised that if the Supreme Court doesn’t do what you want it to do, you should keep passing the same legislation over and over again, albeit in slightly different forms...
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Warren Buffett’s Unsatisfactory Response To Coca-Cola’s Executive Compensation
In an interview with CNBC yesterday, Warren Buffett got questioned about the wisdom of Coca-Cola’s compensation that could potentially dilute shareholders to the tune of $13 billion over the coming...
View ArticleBenjamin Graham Would Not Be A Popular Investor Today
An old joke that Peter Lynch often brought up when given the opportunity to give a speech went as follows: Lynch would describe a press release that has legendary Magellan mutual fund trounced the...
View ArticleKill The Repatriation Tax To Create Immediate Wealth For Americans
If I had to make a short list of the dumbest policies that prevent the United States of America from reaching its full economic potential, one of the top spots would be dedicated to the...
View ArticleTony La Russa’s Commencement Address Applied To Investing
Tony La Russa, the current director of baseball operations for the Arizona Diamondbacks who coached the St. Louis Cardinals to World Series victories in 2006 and 2011, gave the commencement address...
View ArticleWhy Are American Schools Failing?
Lately, I have been reading the works of Charles Murray, an author of social commentaries who is not at all popular with those on the left side of the political spectrum. Mostly, I’ve wanted to...
View ArticleRemedial Life Lessons Need To Be Taught In Schools
Yesterday, Michael Bloomberg published an op-ed on the website which he owns that reached some conclusions different than what I was expecting to see—I wasn’t expecting the guy that wants to legally...
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McCormick And Sysco: Two Companies Quietly Making You Rich
Most of the time, my writings on this site focus on companies with excellent brand names that have a history of creating great wealth for their owners. There’s a reason for that: people will always be...
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