The Personal Finance Podcast

The 7 Habits of Great Investors

The Personal Finance Podcast

Show Notes

The best investors in the world do not share a strategy, but they do share a set of habits. If you learn these habits of great investors instead of their stock picks, your portfolio would probably do better.

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What You'll Learn in This Episode

The seven habits successful investors share, regardless of their strategy

How automatic increases helped people nearly quadruple their savings rate without feeling it

What a 1% fee costs over a career, including one example where it takes $4 million off the ending balance

Why the best days in the market tend to show up right next to the worst ones

The research showing just 4% of companies created all the net wealth in the stock market

Practical ways to keep your emotions from wrecking your returns

Plus listener questions on paying off 23% credit card debt, getting a spouse engaged with money, preparing an investment plan while still in debt, and whether to use a bonus on low-interest loans or a Roth IRA

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Book/s Mentioned

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle

The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

Warren Buffett's shareholder letters, free at https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html

Episode/s Mentioned

The Business Show https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHvdISl-a2chNMWZfkJra-15dS_vlKEt3&si=m0TPEfzeyMjIzEPb

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