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Get the Summary of Hayden Crabtree's Skip the Flip in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: This useful and informative guide will break down all the barriers you have to get started investing in real estate. Skip The Flip teaches you the fundamentals you have to know to be a successful investor.
The system is broken. What was once great advice of going to school, getting good grades, saving...
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Get the Summary of Christopher Leonard's The Lords of Easy Money in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: If you asked most people what forces led to today's unprecedented income inequality and financial crashes, no one would say the Federal Reserve. For most of its history, the Fed has enjoyed the fawning adoration of the press. When the economy grew, it was credited to the Fed. When the economy...
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#1 Index funds are a type of mutual fund that mimic the performance of a specific index. They are designed to simply reflect the value of a group of investments. There are indexes that track just about everything, and more are being created every year.
#2 Stocks, bonds, and mutual funds are all forms of investing. Stocks represent shares of ownership in a company. Bond...
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#1 Value investing is the process of buying securities only when their market prices are significantly below their calculated intrinsic value. It is a simple process, but it requires a lot of discipline.
#2 There are two types of fundamental investors: macrofundamentalists, who are concerned with broad economic factors that affect the entire market, and microfundamentalists,...
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#1 Every business is driven by one of two philosophies: competition-driven or story-driven. The competition-driven company is reactive to the marketplace and prioritises beating its competitors and racking up profits. The people who lead competition-driven organisations seek to dominate the market and maximise shareholder value.
#2 The story-driven company...
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#1 The VCR led to the creation of the video store and eventually Blockbuster. But, had the studios had their way, it would never have happened. The studios believed copyright laws granted them complete control over their content, which included preventing citizens from recording programs on VCRs for private use. But in 1984, the Supreme Court overruled the lower court...
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#1 I was five years away from 40, and I was miserable. I was selling something I didn't care about and had no desire to keep doing. I knew there was more, but I felt stuck. I had thought politics was it, but my dream had died and taken my hope with it.
#2 I was constantly restless, and I would constantly be thinking about different career paths. I would often dream...
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#1 Theodore Roosevelt was elected president in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley. He was governor of New York when McKinley selected him to replace his first vice president, who died in 1899 from a string of heart ailments.
#2 Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1898, despite having little political experience. He was called the cyclone assemblyman...
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#1 The first part of the book is about self-discovery and moving yourself to a point where it's possible for you to do market research. You can't design a system that's right for you unless you know something about yourself.
#2 The secret to making big money in the market is buying breakouts that go beyond a normal day's range of price movement. This is called volatility...
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#1 All of this can be possible when you focus on small actions that relate to your important goals. These habits don't require much effort, but they have a powerful compounding effect if you repeat them often enough.
#2 The power of small actions is often overlooked. It can be difficult to believe that a simple task can make a difference in your life, but it can. Right...
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#1 Social media platforms had a difficult 2018, and the rise and struggles of Facebook and other social media platforms illustrate the dilemma of seeing the real implications of unfolding inflection points.
#2 The right to privacy with regard to the use of library resources has been affirmed again and again in court cases throughout the years. The risk of librarians...
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Book Preview: #1 The first rule of day trading is that day trading is not a strategy to get rich quickly. Day trading is difficult, and you will not make money quickly. The only way to make money in the stock market is to take it from other people while they are trying to take yours.
#2 Day trading is a profession like medicine, law, and engineering. It requires the right tools and...
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#1 The language of investing is financial statements. Investors do not need to become professional accountants in order to have the skills necessary to make competent investment decisions, what is necessary is a basic understanding of accounting.
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#1 EVT Restaurant is a very nice place. It was the first time Rick had been there, and he was greeted by the enthusiastic greeting of his lunch companion, Michelle. She had been friends with the hostess, Katherine, who had told her about Rick.
#2 Rick was meeting with a lender named Michelle to discuss his business problems. He had been having a hard time selling properties lately,...
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#1 The 80/20 rule is everywhere. Not absolutely everything, but most things. Shoes, domains, names, Bible verses, trips to Vegas, pearl necklaces, consumption of dinner napkins, and tubes of lipstick. Rabbit populations, streams, rivers, and passengers on London's underground Tube trains.
#2 The 80/20 rule is not the exact number 80/20 that is the rule, but the principle...
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#1 The first thing to understand about building an incredible business is that it's not about you. It's about finding the perfect alignment between your specific talents and expertise and what the world needs.
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Book Preview: #1 Irrational exuberance is the psychological basis of a speculative bubble. I define a speculative bubble as a situation in which news of price increases spurs investor enthusiasm, which spreads by psychological contagion from person to person, and in the process, amplifies stories that justify the price increase.
#2 The Dow Jones Industrial Average, a stock market...
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#1 The upside of uncertainty is the origin of possibility. It's simple: every person, process, and product has passed through countless uncertainties before arriving at the current known iteration. When we focus on the possibility from the outset, calmly recognizing that uncertainty will attend every possibility, we team up with the upside of uncertainty.
#2 The Reframe...
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#1 Zig Ziglar is advising you to quit sales if you can't handle the abuse and rejection that comes with it. You should get into sales because your heart and head won't allow you to do anything else.
#2 The sales profession has a high turnover rate because of the lack of commitment among new recruits. However, this is changing, and the public is gaining respect for the true sales professional.
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#1 The three little questions are a litmus test for what makes you different, what gives your company its raison d'etre. A good example of a company that understands differentiation is John Deere, which makes farm tractors and related equipment.
#2 The human brain is a filter that protects us from the vast amount of irrelevant information that surrounds us every day. It learns to...