Posts by Dan Ferris
The Few Stocks That Will Make You Rich
Fifteen stocks. According to a former Forbes columnist, that’s what it took to make Warren Buffett one of the richest men in the world. Former Forbes columnist Mark Hulbert did a study a few years back. He looked at all of Warren Buffett’s investment decisions over the years. Hulbert concluded 15 stocks made Buffett rich…
Read MoreThree More Reasons Why I’m Selling Warren Buffett’s Stock
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in history…And every value investor can learn a lot from reading his annual shareholder letters and hearing him speak.But as I showed you in yesterday’s essay, you shouldn’t worship him… or let that influence your valuation of his business, Berkshire Hathaway. As you can see, he makes…
Read MoreWhy I’m Selling Warren Buffett’s Stock
He’s the greatest investor the world has ever seen… He has made my readers a lot of money. And now, I’m telling readers to sell his stock.Warren Buffett is viewed as the “gold standard” for ideas about accounting rules, corporate capital allocation, shareholder-value creation, corporate governance, and dozens of other important investment topics. He has…
Read MoreHow to Invest $1,000 or a $1,000,000
Over the past decade, I’ve received dozens of e-mails from folks who write in to ask me: “Dan, is there a secret to finding great investments?” Well, it’s a difficult process… but the answer is yes. If you know what to look for, there’s a definite secret to finding what we call “slam dunk” great…
Read MoreThe 3 Secrets of Self-Made Billionaire Investors
Warren Buffett was born in 1930 and became a child of the Great Depression. Today he’s worth in excess of $50 billion. George Soros was born the same year, and became a child of the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and WWII. According to Forbes.com, he’s worth over $19 billion. Carl Icahn was born in 1936.…
Read MoreShort, But Sweet
I turned 50 last Friday. I had a great time Saturday night with friends and family. We drank some great wine (Lindstrom and Del Dotto cabernets) and had a fantastic meal, prepared by a guy I believe is the best chef for hundreds of miles around these parts. I’d never heard of Moroccan anchovies or…
Read MoreThe Safest Stocks in the World
The safest stocks in the world right now have three important traits.
Read MoreUse This Simple Secret to Find the Best Stocks
One of the secrets to finding the very best investments is so simple, most people don’t pay attention to it…
Read MoreThe Secret of Making Money in Stocks
If you’d had a crystal ball in 1960, you would have accurately predicted: the assassination of John F. Kennedy the expansion of both the welfare state and the Vietnam War (“guns and butter”) Richard Nixon’s wage and price controls and his subsequent resignation the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union a one-day…
Read MoreZen and the Art of Speaking at Seminars
by David Cross Seminars and trade shows rain PowerPoint presentations over us like a plague of locusts in the desert. “Click … and we’ve improved the features of Wango Widgets in this key area and … jargon, jargon … click … in this next slide we can see how Wango Widgets will capture full market…
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