Here are two great quotes from Sir John Templeton about the importance of diversifying your investments: DIVERSIFICATION SHOULD BE THE CORNER STONE of your investment program. If you have your wealth in one company, unexpected troubles may cause a serious loss; but if you own the stocks of 12 companies in different industries, the one [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Quick Quotes
Posted in Investing, Philosophy, Quotes, Stocks, Wall Street on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Investing Yourself in Your Work
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Money, Philosophy, Templeton Plan, Thrift on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We continue our exploration of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan by reviewing Step 7: Investing Yourself in Your Work. As the summer vacation season winds down and we all begin to refocus on putting in a good day’s work, Templeton’s advice about work and how to be successful may come in [...]
Outperforming the Market
Posted in Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Templeton consistently outperformed the stock market, but he realized the difficulty in doing it, as discussed in Spiritual Investments: Wall Street Wisdom from the Career of Sir John Templeton by Gary Moore: Outperforming the market is an ambitious goal and one that must be pursued carefully. The challenge to outperforming the market is not [...]
The Telecommuter
Posted in Business, Finance, Investing, Philosophy, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wishing you were still on vacation soaking up the sun? Well, maybe it’s time to think about telecommuting, just as John Templeton did in the 1960s, when he moved to The Bahamas while continuing his legendary investment career. Long before the Internet made telecommuting a viable option at the workplace, Templeton decided to move 1,000 miles away from [...]
Traveling the Globe
Posted in Business, Investing, Markets, Philosophy, Wall Street on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 1937, John Templeton and a friend journeyed across the globe, traveling to twenty-seven countries in seven months and with only a combined two hundred English pounds. As William Proctor narrates in The Templeton Touch, this experience gave Templeton a head start when he began his investment career when returning from the trip of a lifetime: [...]
Learning from Experience
Posted in Investing, Philosophy on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As we begin the second full week of August, many people are taking time to travel and experience new places. John Templeton was a life-long traveler: he traversed America as a boy with his mother, embarked on a months-long tour of Europe after college, relocated to the Bahamas from New York City, and even visited the North [...]
Happiness Breeds Success
Posted in Templeton Plan on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We continue our exploration of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan by reviewing Step 6: Finding the Positive with Every Negative. Sir John firmly believed that happiness breeds success and he was always fond of quotes, so below are some of his favorites on that concern the lessons of Step 6. “When [...]
Link Roundup
Posted in Investing, tagged link roundup on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s time to take another short break from our Templeton Plan posts to do another Link Roundup! People have been name-checking Sir John all over the place lately! It’s a trend that we like and we’d love to see it continue. These are all good, but we’re especially partial to the one from AllFinancialMatters — each of their [...]
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