In closing his letter about Planned Investment in 1945, John Templeton remarked that “investment planning may cause the invested funds to double.” Rather than advocating for a haphazard, short-term, shoot-from-the-hip mentality toward investing, Templeton advocates patience and perseverance. So how does one create an investment plan in today’s market? In a 1993 article in World Monitor, [...]
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The Templeton Letters: Investment Success
Posted in Finance, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, Templeton Letters, Wall Street on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Templeton Letters: The Value of Investment Planning
Posted in Finance, Investing, Money, Stock Market, Stocks, Templeton Letters on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a 1945 letter to investors, John Templeton discusses the importance of planned investment. In this section of the letter, he details how one can balance his or her investments for a better payoff twenty years down the road. In simplest terms, the “balance” of the investment fund is shifted gradually step-by-step away from stocks [...]
The Templeton Letters: The Backbone of Personal Investment
Posted in Economy, Finance, Investing, Templeton Letters on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a 1945 letter to investors, John Templeton discusses the importance of planned investment. In this section of the letter, he discusses how many people underestimate the strategy of an investment program, and he reminds us (even today) of the volatility of the market: Many people act as if the selection of particular stocks and [...]
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 3
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Money, Philosophy on March 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. Despite these clear examples of economic vices, and the demonstrable role that [...]
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 2
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Markets, News, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. As we know, this behavior of utilizing debt to live beyond one’s [...]
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 1
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. One of the most interesting exercises we undertook after reviewing Sir John’s [...]
John Templeton and the Virtue of Thrift
Posted in Finance, Money, Philosophy, Templeton Plan, Thrift on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As many of us begin the new year with resolutions to save more of our resources, throughout January we will highlight John Templeton’s relationship with thrift. Last year, Templeton Press launched Bring Back Thrift Week, a campaign designed to restore the week of January 17 through 23 as National Thrift Week, once a prominent celebration of thrift. [...]
Economic Vice #3: Pride
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Philosophy, Quotes on December 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll continue exploring John Templeton’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll look at the third of five economic vices he discusses in the speech. The third economic vice is pride. Every businessman who has to work [...]
Economic Vice #2: Greed
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Money, Philanthropy, Quotes on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we’ll continue exploring John Templeton’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll look at the second of five economic vices he discusses in the speech. A related economic vice is greed. Because of greed, the modern [...]
What Would John Templeton NOT Say?
Posted in Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Quotes, tagged books, financial history, Sir John quotes on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was one particular phrase that Sir John Templeton regarded as supremely dangerous. He conditioned his own mind to resist entertaining this poisonous thought, and he always cautioned his fellow investors to do the same, lest they bring financial ruin upon themselves. So what was the offending sentence? “This time is different.” While perusing the [...]
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