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Picking Investments: Only Two Things Matter

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Re: Picking Investments: Only Two Things Matter

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Two words: Berkshire Hathaway.

Those are, indeed, two words. They'd be more useful if placed into a full sentence, for instance "I think you should put all your net wealth into shares of Berkshire Hathaway" or "I think you should try to replicate Berkshire Hathwaway's investment strategy" or "Hey, you should think about buying a little bit of Berkshire Hathaway as part of a diversified portfolio which also includes other asset classes".

"Berkshire Hathaway is something you can defensibly buy that isn't an index fund."

Re: Picking Investments: Only Two Things Matter

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

on the other hand, most people are idiots.

Which is why they should listen to patio11 (and won't).

sure, that's valid. it's also valid to acknowledge that their exists within that group a sub-group of people (albeit small) who DO actually have "the right idea" that WILL actually "pay multiples over the crappy returns the S&P has over the past 10 years", but DOES require going "all in" to achieve.
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