As we explore the topic of morality and the markets in our spring blog contest, we will highlight John Templeton’s favorite “Laws of Life” as referenced in The Templeton Plan in our next few posts. Altruism is a law of life. The altruistic person tries to make our world a better place to live in. There [...]
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Templeton and the Laws of Life, Part 4
Posted in Philosophy, Uncategorized on March 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
John Templeton and the Virtue of Thrift, III
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, Templeton Plan, Thrift, Uncategorized on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing our January theme of John Templeton’s relationship with thrift, we have more today from step 12 of The Templeton Plan. If these writings resonate with you be sure to join our campaign to Bring Back National Thrift Week, either by visiting the official website or by becoming a fan on Facebook. John Templeton loves to quote [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Benefits of Embracing Change
Posted in Philosophy, Templeton Plan, Uncategorized on July 30, 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. With the recession still holding strong, we will explore this step and provide some examples of why living a more optimistic life is beneficial. Throughout his life, John Templeton looked for [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Gary Moore on John Templeton’s Legendary Long-run Performance
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In past posts, I’ve gone out on a limb and suggested Sir John Templeton may have been taking a closer look at some high quality stocks since the market bottomed last October. I was pleased last week to read a report by Gary Motyl—the current Chief Investment Officer of the Templeton funds who was hired by [...]
John Templeton’s 2003 Prediction and Today’s Housing Market
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Housing Market, Investing, Markets, Money, Recession, Uncategorized on April 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In an April 6, 2009, Wall Street Journal op ed titled “From Bubble to Depression,” Stephen Gjerstad and Vernon Smith argue that both The Great Depression and today’s recession were caused by enormous consumer debt, and most particularly mortgage debt. To quote: . . . the financial system has suffered a blow unlike anything since [...]
Be a Contrarian
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
As we’ve highlighted in the last several weeks, one of John Templeton’s most successful investing strategies was to buy low and sell high. In Spiritual Investments: Wall Street Wisdom from the Career of Sir John Templeton, Gary Moore highlights this strategy of maximum pessimism: Every investor knows to buy low. But in actual practice, this [...]
Gary Moore on Buy Low, Sell High
Posted in Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, News, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We asked a few of Sir John’s family members and friends to share their perspectives on Sir John’s rule of “Buy Low, Sell High.” Gary Moore, author of Faithful Finances and founder of Gary Moore and Company weighs in: One of the terribly important things to remember about Sir John’s seemingly optimistic opinion that stocks always [...]
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