Rule Breaker Investing

Insights on investing, business, and life from The Motley Fool's Chief Rule Breaker, @DavidGFool

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

Where are you putting your money? #FoodForThought #RBIPodcast

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Once every few years, it’s time to expand the Rule Breaker canon.

Today’s @RBIPodcast adds six laws to the collection—frameworks that help make us smarter, happier, and richer.

36 minutes. It packs a punch! 💥🥊💥

It is out. 🙂

https://t.co/oKs5zyNGFv

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

Now available! The RBI podcast May 2026 Mailbag covers "divvy-pops," jellybeans, and the kids of Kopachuk. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/2CoHqZhQRg

#RuleBreakerInvesting #FoolOn

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Today's @RBIPodcast speaks to this directly. It's our May 2026 Mailbag. 📈🤑🌟

Out in 5 hours. 🙂

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Today's @RBIPodcast speaks to this directly. It's our May 2026 Mailbag. 📈🤑🌟

Out in 5 hours. 🙂

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

An episode not to be missed! #RuleBreakerInvesting

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Some @RBIPodcasts I make for the month (Mailbag).
Some for a quarter (Market Cap Game Show).
Some for a year (Gratitude 202X).

And some… I make for all time. 🌈

60 Thoughts As I Turn 60 is out. 🦄🎙️

https://t.co/rhTK1qxy5V

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Some @RBIPodcasts I make for the month (Mailbag).
Some for a quarter (Market Cap Game Show).
Some for a year (Gratitude 202X).

And some… I make for all time. 🌈

60 Thoughts As I Turn 60 is out. 🦄🎙️

https://t.co/rhTK1qxy5V

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

It’s birthday week on @RBIPodcast! 🎉

And once again, the greatest gift is hearing what listeners have learned along the way. This year: nine wonderful correspondents, nine reflections, and more than a few smiles from me. 🙂🙂🙂

It’s out! 🃏🎉60🎉🃏

https://t.co/LWRWLpvIYz

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

This is a fantastic and thought-provoking conversation about investing between @DavidGFool and @Ritholtz (two of the best podcasters in the business!). Enjoy:

https://t.co/LMQlrE7w8L

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

Link: https://t.co/CW4h9cC633

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

It's mailbag time! Our final episode of April is as motley as ever, with @DavidGFool covering everything from buying in thirds instead of waiting for dips to one listener’s beautifully rebalanced "harbor-and-horizon" portfolio.

Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

[J64 @_J64_]

Listen to @DavidGFool talk about the characteristics of a rule breaker during his discussion with @Ritholtz.

Great investment philosophy if you are looking to find disruptive asymmetric opportunities.

@themotleyfool

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

$NXPI: Nice day!

I first picked it for @TMFRuleBreakers on 3/23/11 at $23.93. Today, it rose $58.78 (26%). That's more than twice our @themotleyfool cost basis in a single day.

So THAT's a spiffy 2-pop! 🦄🌟📈

Congrats, Breakers, and we are still holding. 🙂
#thisishowwedoit

[Money Unplugged with Chris Hill @MoneyUnpluggedP]

cc @RBIPodcast @DavidGFool

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Really looking forward to joining @MastersinB with @Ritholtz this weekend on Bloomberg Radio. First time meeting. A very good man. Long-form. Great questions. Fool on!

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

Three Fools. Nine stories. 🔥

With fellow podcasters @BurkeOptimist (Blue Sky) & @Mahany (Partnering Leadership), @RBIPodcast gathers us round the campfire to each share a story to educate, amuse, and enrich.

Camaraderie. Wisdom. Fun! 🎙️❤️🌈🌠

Listen👇
https://t.co/0YqsrH4T5O

[Andrew Gibson @AndrewGibs53446]

@RyanDetrick @PopsSpiffy “ABI, always be Investing.”

- @DavidGFool

[Fool Community Foundation @foolfoundation]

Ever feel like investing just isn't for you? 🎰 We're busting that myth — and 3 others. Tap the link and see where you land. 💸🔗https://t.co/K5Q542PaBx

[Andrew Gibson @AndrewGibs53446]

@ChrisHillALX @MoneyUnpluggedP @marketmusician, I had a great morning listening to the podcast.

The three parts that really struck the power chords.

1. “Penny wise and pound foolish.” The quiet wisdom of spending a little more today for far higher quality, especially on those things we will live with for years, brings lasting satisfaction. I have learned this lesson many times in my own life. Sometimes the truest economy lies in delaying gratification long enough to choose excellence. It can still be a gray area but it does seem 80% of the time this is the case.

2. Realizing that our imagined needs for retirement and our actual needs are two very different things. A pension, valuable as it is, is rarely the complete answer.

Even more powerful is teaching our children one simple rule, beginning with their very first paycheck: set aside at least ten percent through dollar-cost averaging.

This elegant discipline, rooted in the KISS principle, harnesses time, our greatest ally, and quietly builds a future of real security. I will be quoting this to my kids from now on.

3. Learning to give where the impact is unmistakably real. I have often struggled to know whether my giving truly helps or quietly hinders.

Jeff’s approach, shaped by both personal intuition and the gentle guidance of his church, offered a refreshingly clear and thoughtful path.

“No good deed goes unpunished, but every scar you earn from doing good becomes a quiet reminder that you chose to live a life with purpose, and in the end of our lives will be the final question we’ll ask ourselves I believe”

- Love office space, only one last question 🙋 , have you seen my stapler ?

[David Gardner @DavidGFool]

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[Andrew Gibson @AndrewGibs53446]

https://t.co/uP2yH8BNpf

"Ling's Money Thing" fizzled out like yesterday's cappuccino foam.

One thing kept going, though... $SBUX.

[Rule Breaker Investing @RBIPodcast]

Team Rule Breakers is grateful for all the #RuleBreakerInvesting readers posting reviews on Amazon or Goodreads -- thank you, dear Fools!

PSA -- there's a bonus chapter available (for free) on the book's website... Check it out! https://t.co/ERSzgSCRrR