On today’s episode, Kyle Grieve discusses a book that is near and dear to Warren Buffett’s heart, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher. He’ll discuss why the book was so influential on Warren’s transition towards quality businesses, why going deep into a business is vital to successful long-term investing, specific ways to learn more about a business, it’s management, and its products, how to create your own business grapevine to monitor your investments, details on how Philip Fisher’s investing philosophy and how it developed, and a whole lot more!
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
00:00 - Intro
04:12 - The importance of avoiding dogmatic thinking in investing
05:13 - Why owning growing businesses is so powerful for great investments
05:47 - How to evaluate a business growth prospects
08:43 - How you should look at relations between a business and its employees
14:44 - How Amazon has strengthened their moat by thinking long-term
26:27 - The three ways a business can fund its growth and which are the most beneficial to shareholders
33:56 - Why you should seek transparency in your management teams
35:17 - How to balance investing in growth businesses with being a conservative investor
44:57 - Why having the ability to see the future of a business's profits is so key for minimizing risk
53:07 - The importance of consistently monitoring your businesses, no matter how well they've performed for you in the past
And so much more!
Disclaimer: Slight discrepancies in the timestamps may occur due to podcast platform differences.
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