Business Perspective & Quality Investor

UK based investor applying the logic of Buffett/Munger/Fisher/Lynch to worldwide markets since 1992/93. Also an alternative music, Craft Ale and cycling fan

[The Motley Fool @themotleyfool]

Live below your means.
Invest the difference.
Ignore the noise.

Repeat until your friends start asking how you did it.

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

“Buy a stock the way you would buy a house. Understand and like it such that you’d be content to own it in the absence of any market.” - Warren Buffett

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

"Like Warren, I had a considerable passion to get rich, not because I wanted Ferraris—I wanted the independence. I desperately wanted it."

— Charlie Munger

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

“Nobody can predict interest rates, the future direction of the economy, or the stock market.

Dismiss all such forecasts and concentrate on what’s actually happening to the companies in which you’ve invested.”

Peter Lynch

[The Motley Fool @themotleyfool]

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

- David Dreman

[The Motley Fool @themotleyfool]

Investing superpowers:

1. Time
2. Patience
3. Diversification

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Be a business picker:

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

When you bring in outside consultants to help.

[Ian Cassel @iancassel]

You can't become a great investor overnight because its most important lessons can’t be taught, they have to be experienced.

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Build wealth to control your time, not to buy fancier stuff.

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Investing is risky.

Not investing is riskier.

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

One of the best paragraphs Buffett has ever written

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

@TheAnnaGat More fiction has been written in Excel than in Word

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.”

— Warren Buffett

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“Savings can be created by spending less. You can spend less if you desire less. And you will desire less if you care less about what others think of you.”

— Morgan Housel

[Investment Wisdom @InvestingCanons]

“Be a business analyst, not a market, macroeconomics, or security analyst.”

— Charlie Munger

[Casey Donaldson @caseyjdonaldson]

"People who use EBITDA are either trying to con you, or they're conning themselves."

--Warren Buffett