Investing 102

[bdahlg68]

Another sneaky one is CVX! Wow! I bought some shares on 1/31/2012 at $103.39 and collected 5 dividends since then! Total return is about 20% in a year!

[toy71camaro]

Originally Posted by bdahlg68

Another sneaky one is CVX! Wow! I bought some shares on 1/31/2012 at $103.39 and collected 5 dividends since then! Total return is about 20% in a year!

another one of my core items. I purchased a little later, and then purchased some more on their big "dip"... im at around 12.5% paper gain + a few dividends.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by bdahlg68

Another sneaky one is CVX! Wow! I bought some shares on 1/31/2012 at $103.39 and collected 5 dividends since then! Total return is about 20% in a year!

Originally Posted by toy71camaro

another one of my core items. I purchased a little later, and then purchased some more on their big "dip"... im at around 12.5% paper gain + a few dividends.

We have some serious investors here! Soon they'll be known as the "millionaires next door"!


Way to keep at it guys! Seriously.... this is the way it gets done!


Just please remember that the way to get 'er done is to not give up when the chips are DOWN.... That is when the smart guys buy more. They suffer - but then they're made whole -- and make money.

[Tony_SS]

How does SIAL look to you guys?

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Tony_SS

How does SIAL look to you guys?

Personally --- I've never heard of it.... It might be a great name.... But I don't invest in stuff I know nothing about.

[sik68]

Investors, here's an excerpt from The Intelligent Investor that really slaps you upside the head when we think to deviate from the rules in Investing 101...

Nearly all the richest people in America trace their wealth to a concentrated investment in a single industry or even a single company (think Bill Gates and Microsoft, Sam Walton and Wal-Mart, or the Rockefellers and Standard Oil). The Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, for example, has been dominated by undiversified fortunes ever since it was first compiled in 1982.

However, almost no small fortunes have been made this way - and not many big fortunes have been kept this way. What Carnegie neglected to mention is that concentration also makes most of the great failures of life. Look again at the Forbes "Rich List." Back in 1982, the average net worth of a Forbes 400 member was $230 million. To make it onto the 2002 Forbes 400, the average 1982 member needed to earn only a 4.5% average annual return on his wealth - during a period when even bank accounts yielded far more than that and the stock market gained an annual average of 13.2%

So how many of the Forbes 400 fortunes from 1982 remained on the list 20 years later? Only 64 of the original members - a measly 16% - were still on the list in 2002. By keeping all their eggs in the one basket that had gotten them onto the list in the first place - once-booming industries like oil and gas, or computer hardware, or basic manufacturing - all the other original members fell away. When hard times hit, none of these people - despite all the huge advantages that great wealth can bring - were properly prepared.

Although it speaks about the un-sustainability of over-concentrating, it also shows that wealth is not about striking it rich, but is really about having the intelligence to grow money over time. I suppose that's the point GW keeps making regarding luck. Luck is certainly a part of the equation to get rich "quickly" and "easily"... but it's only the kindling. Turning riches into wealth takes intelligence and time.

Stay the course!


GW, I'm rooting for you on the 400 list!

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by sik68

Investors, here's an excerpt from The Intelligent Investor that really slaps you upside the head when we think to deviate from the rules in Investing 101...



Although it speaks about the un-sustainability of over-concentrating, it also shows that wealth is not about striking it rich, but is really about having the intelligence to grow money over time. I suppose that's the point GW keeps making regarding luck. Luck is certainly a part of the equation to get rich "quickly" and "easily"... but it's only the kindling. Turning riches into wealth takes intelligence and time.

Stay the course!


GW, I'm rooting for you on the 400 list!

Good points made here! Very good points.


You know - really - there are so many OLD sayings that actually MEAN SOMETHING if you care to listen.

Diversify
Pigs get fat - HOGS get slaughtered
Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Nobody ever went broke taking a profit
COMPOUNDING


I've said it a 100 times -- none of this is complicated. WE try to make it complicated.... because WE think we're smarter or WE think we can't loose... or WE think this is the sure thing...

<<<<< BUZZER >>>>>


Just buy good stuff -- best of breed names -- keep adding to the pile.... re-invest the dividends -- don't hawk your house -- strive to get debt free by retirement....


Then you dudes could come skiing with me in Sun Valley... go racin' with Charlie... and just generally mess around!

EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA


BTW --- I'm a long long long ways from making ANY lists except my wife's S**T list.

[Vegas69]

I know I have my own thread on philosophy but what the hell.

The fundamentals of life and business never change. What happens is people forget what got them there in the first place. All good things come from labor and persistence. Get fat and lazy, you become broke and start blaming the democrats.

Greg is rich because he found an opportunity, took advantage of the opportunity, worked at growing his wealth, continues to work at growing his wealth, and will always work at growing his wealth.

My mentor Jim Rohn says, "Success is the refined study of the obvious." I can't think of a more opportune time to use it.

Back to my own thread.....