These days you don’t need to look very far to find news items that validate Sir John’s advice to “Put First Things First.” As we pointed out in the last post, he noted that, “All of us have been taught that crime does not pay and, of course, it’s true. Crime of any kind is a sin [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The Consequences of Failing to “Put First Things First”
Posted in Business, Finance, Investing, Money, Philosophy, Stock Market, Templeton Plan, Wall Street on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Putting First Things First
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Templeton Plan on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we’ll continue our exploration of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan by focusing on Step 4: Putting First Things First. What are these so-called “first things” in business? Making a basic business plan perhaps? Maybe he’s referring to performing the necessary market research? Or could he be suggesting that we develop a firm understanding of elementary economic principles? Actually, it’s none [...]
Lessons for Controlling Your Thoughts
Posted in Philosophy, Templeton Plan on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To better understand the financial wisdom of John Templeton, we are discussing some of his twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pairing them with financial news. We are currently discussing Step 14: Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action. Here are the four lessons for controlling your thoughts for effective action as detailed by [...]
Wider Perspectives on Controlling Your Thoughts
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Templeton Plan on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To better understand the financial wisdom of John Templeton, we are discussing some of his twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pairing them with financial news. We are currently discussing Step 14: Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action. John Templeton often looks to others’ wisdom to augment his own perspective. In the chapter on ”Controlling [...]
Controlled Thinking in Business
Posted in Auto Industry, Business, Crisis, Economy, News, Recession, Templeton Plan on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To better understand the financial wisdom of John Templeton, we are discussing some of his twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pairing them with financial news. We are currently discussing Step 14: Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action. To relate the step, “Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action,” to today’s news, one only [...]
Scott Phillips on Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Templeton Plan on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To better understand the financial wisdom of John Templeton, we are discussing some of his twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pairing them with financial news. We are currently discussing Step 14: Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action. Scott Phillips, coauthor of Investing the Templeton Way, weighs in on this concept: Just as Sir John mentioned, [...]
Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Templeton Plan on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the coming weeks, we will discuss some of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pair it with financial news. We will begin our series by discussing Step 14: Controlling Your Thoughts for Effective Action. Here’s an introduction to Templeton’s concept. Other contributors will provide insight on this step in future [...]
The Templeton Plan
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Templeton Plan on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the coming weeks, we will discuss some of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan and pair it with financial news. Before we begin discussing individual steps, we wanted to share an excerpt from Templeton’s introduction to describe his philosophical outlook on life: The Templeton Plan came into being out of my [...]
Templeton’s Philosophy
Posted in Business, Economy, Philosophy, Quotes, Recession, Templeton Plan on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is no doubt that at this point everyone has been affected by our current recession in some way. Between a bear market, the housing crash, and rising unemployment numbers, the Great Recession—as some are calling it—has prompted all of us to change our personal outlook. Just as John Templeton had the foresight to predict [...]
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