The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros

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Macmillan, Aug 22, 2006 - Business & Economics - 368 pages

Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, and George Soros all started with nothing---and made billion-dollar fortunes solely by investing. But their investment strategies are so widely divergent, what could they possibly have in common?

As Mark Tier demonstrates in this insightful book, the secrets that made Buffet, Icahn, and Soros the world's three richest investors are the same mental habits and strategies they all practice religiously. However, these are mental habits and strategies that fly in the face of Wall Street's conventional mindset. For example:

-Buffett, Icahn, and Soros do not diversify. When they buy, they buy as much as they can.

-They're not focused on the profits they expect to make. Going in, they're not investing for the money at all.

-They don't believe that big profits involve big risks. In fact, they're far more focused on not losing money than making it.

-Wall Street research reports? They never read them. They're not interested in what other people think. Indeed, Buffett says he only reads analyst reports when he needs a laugh.

In The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros you can discover how the mental habits that guided your last investment decision stack up against those of Buffett, Icahn, and Soros. Then learn exactly how you can apply the wealth-building secrets of the world's richest investors to transform your own investment results.

 

Contents

The Seven Deadly Investment Sins
12
Keep What You Have
22
George Soros Doesnt Take Risks?
32
The Market Is Always Wrong
56
You Are What You Measure
83
You Call That a Position?
109
Stick to the Knitting
124
Start with the As
138
Phony Phony Phony
201
Whatever You Have Spend Less
209
Master of His Craft
220
This Is Your Life
226
Do You Need to Be a Genius?
233
Laying Foundations
271
What Are You Going to Measure?
286
Gaining Unconscious Competence
299

Pull the Trigger
153
Admit Your Mistakes
169
Learn from Your Mistakes
175
Wishing Wont Make It
183
Keep Your Mouth Shut
195
Its Easier Than You Think
306
The 23 Winning Investment Habits
321
Records of the Two Master Investors
327
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