Tag: science
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14. It’s a war
“In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable moats” Warren Buffett Capitalism is like life, it is a war. Our goal is to find the best fortress where to put our capital, ideally a fortress with a wide moat, and a smart and powerful lord.In the course of human history, battlegrounds have changed…
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Cryptocurrencies
As usual, I want to start with a quote, in this case, Naval Ravikant, a notorious entrepeneur and angel Investor. For those uninformed about this branch of investing: Angel investors are the first investors in embryonic projects, namely start-ups. Naval is active on Twitter (@Naval) and, if you are interested, I warmly suggest you to…
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Case Study 2 – Berkshire Hathaway
Do you remember when I spoke about how companies reward us? (7. How the companies reward us). I decided to write some case studies in the course of this blog because I think that reinforces the concepts in our minds. Initially, the goal of those studies is to explore events that give us a hint…
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12. Starting point
Well, let’s start our journey through the numbers. As I said, quantitative analysis isn’t my preferred part. I prefer good stories, but over time, due to some errors, I understood the importance of numbers. Stories sometimes lie (i.e because the CEOs lie, often they are only good salesmen. We will learn how to value a good…
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11. Stories and numbers
“Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who’ve been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage.” Peter Lynch Peter Lynch is one of the best investors of all time, he ran the Magellan fund, which earned an annual return of 29.2% from 1977 until 1990. In other words, if…