“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 which turns out badly will probably be offset by some other which turns out better than [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Lauren Templeton on John Templeton and Diversification
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Philosophy, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
John Templeton and Competition
Posted in Business, Philosophy on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier in the week, Netflix awarded a $1 million prize to a group of people who had successfully created software that could serve millions of movie-watching customers better. The competition spanned three years and, in the end, only two teams were able to achieve the goal of the contest. To read more about the contest, read [...]
Link Roundup
Posted in Investing, News, tagged Investing, John Templeton, Wall Street on September 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s time to take another short break from our Templeton Plan posts to do another Link Roundup! Here’s another tour of who’s saying what about you-know-who from around the web: “5 Behavioral Attributes of Successful Investors” ETF Guide “Contrarian Investing” Wall Street Mess “Top 5 Best Investors” After Hours Investing “Lessons from 2009: Don’t Buy When [...]
Quotes on Working Hard
Posted in Quotes, Templeton Plan on September 17, 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 [...]
What Could Templeton Do with Today’s Technology?
Posted in Business, Philosophy, Templeton Plan, Uncategorized on September 15, 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 [...]
Templeton on Diversification
Posted in Business, Investing, Markets, Money, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research shows that a stock portfolio with investments around the world is likely to yield, in the long run, higher return at a lower level of volatility than a simple, diversified, single nation portfolio. This is what we have always done, as the results of Templeton Growth Fund, Ltd. have shown. July 1994 If you [...]
Templeton and Tests
Posted in Philosophy, Templeton Plan on September 8, 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 [...]
Success and Working Hard
Posted in Philosophy, Templeton Plan on September 3, 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 [...]
More Quick Quotes
Posted in Uncategorized on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE ONLY INVESTORS WHO shouldn’t diversify are those who are right 100% of the time. — The Templeton Touch, 1983 TO AVOID HAVING ALL YOUR EGGS in the wrong basket at the wrong time, every investor should diversify. If you search worldwide, you will find more and better bargains than by studying only one [...]
