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The Psychology of Money

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Janitor died with $8M. Harvard MBA went bankrupt. Same math. Behavior decided.
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Ronald Read was a janitor. He died with $8 million in stock.
Richard Fuscone was a Merrill Lynch VP. He filed for bankruptcy.

Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are.
It has a lot to do with how you behave.

8 lessons that compound longer than any market cycle.

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READ STACKSSUMMARYRead in 2 min, 11 slides.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSRonald Read was a janitor.He died with $8 million.Richard Fuscone was a Merrill Lynch VPwith a Harvard MBA.He filed for bankruptcy.The difference wasn't IQ.It was behavior.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSDoing well with moneyhas little to dowith how smart you are.It has a lot to dowith how you behave.And behavior is hard to teach,even to really smart people.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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The idea
READ STACKSWarren Buffett's net worth:$84 billion.Of that, $81 billion cameafter his 65th birthday.He's not the best investor.He's the oldest.Time is the secret ingredient.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSGetting wealthyand staying wealthyare two different skills.Getting wealthy requires risk and optimism.Staying wealthy requires the opposite:humility and a little fear.Most people only learn one.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSYou see someone driving a Ferrari.You don't think:'I want to be like him.'You think:'If I had that car,people would look at me like that.'No one's looking at him.They're looking at the car.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSThe highest form of wealthis the ability to wake upand say:'I can do whatever I want today.'That freedom is boughtwith savings, not income.Income is rented. Savings are owned.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSBuild room for error.The difference betweenbeing okay and being ruinedis whether you can survivethe period when you were wrong.And you will be wrong.The market guarantees it.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSTail events drive everything.A handful of companiesproduce most of the market's returns.A handful of daysproduce most of the year's gains.Miss the tails — miss the game.Stay in the game.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSEveryone you call crazy with moneylearned their lesson in a different decade.A child of the 30s fears risk.A child of the 90s loves it.Neither is irrational.They're answering different questions.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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READ STACKSThat's the playbook.Housel's 20 chapters — free in bio.Save for the next decisionthat compounds for thirty years.from The Psychology of Moneyby Morgan Housel
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