Vernon Fox - Warren Buffett Investing Strategies: Learn How Value Investing in Stocks Help You Achieve Your Financial Freedom in your Future

Warren Buffett Investing Strategies

Learn How Value Investing in Stocks

Help You Achieve Your Financial Freedom in Your Future

Vernon Fox

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ISBN-10:1500830011

ISBN-13:978-1500830014

Introduction

W arren Buffett is one of the high-profile philanthropists who found abundance in their chosen endeavors and realized that they have more than what they could provide as investors. But did he stop at simply giving money?

For a genuinely generous person, Buffett must have realized that providing money to charitable causes might be good but it is not enough. It is still different when you are there yourself to witness the action, see where the money you donate ends up, and donate time and effort as well to the cause you have chosen to support. Thats when you realize how different it turns out to be when personal touch is applied to giving.

You cannot give what you do not have. The common misconception about giving is that it is limited to giving money and seeing how it is well-spent. For a renowned investor such as Buffett, he eventually realized that it is not just money that he can share. An investor of his stature has something more and that is experience. For experience is your best teacher and the best way to repay it is by sharing that experience to the rest of the world in order for them to learn from it as well.

This brings us to this question - Who is Warren Buffett? How did he walk through such riches and how long did it take for him to build his economic empire? How long did it take for him to realize that it is time to share money and experience so that everyone else may profit from them as well?

Born during the Great Depression, Warren Buffett learned at an early age the importance of saving money not because of things that you intend to buy in the future but to buffer the effects of the economic crunch. Exposed early to hard work as a helper in his grandfathers grocery, Buffett learned how to make money work for him instead of simply saving it in the bank.

During his free time, he would be seen at the local brokerage office and learn investing in stocks. It was at age 14 when he filed his first income tax return, a move not usually seen in young people of his age today but made possible knowing that investing in the stock market is open to all ages.

This early exposure to the world of business helped him earn his business degrees - first, his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and second, his Master of Science in Economics at Columbia Business School. He even earned the distinction of learning under one of the renowned investors of his time, Benjamin Graham, a mentorship Buffett is only too thankful for, knowing that much of his investment strategies used today are based on his teachings.

This eBook hopes to explore in-depth the details behind those teachings and how it helped Buffett in establishing not only his business empire but his reputation as a credible business mentor.

Chapter 1: Little Returns, Staying Consistent

A common complaint about investing is the small-size of the returns displayed for everyone else to see. There are folks that shun such investment opportunities as opposed to Warren Buffett. But why?

Certain investments dont always tell the truth when it comes to investment returns. In a working environment where being honest about certain data is often the exception instead of being the norm, some companies are willing to risk that reputation as long as the consistent returns involve stock prices and investment opportunities stay true to how returns would be earned.

The adage If its too good to be true still rings true, pun intended. Skepticism is still the better attitude to approach investment opportunities as it would still be your hard-earned cash that would get risked.

The Long Term Effects

The worst attitude associated with investment is thinking about now, not the long term. What went wrong with the mentality of expecting immediate big returns is that certain investors are only concerned about events that are transpiring now, not in the future. It even gives you a glimpse at how they view the future if ever they even think of it at the moment.

One acceptable and understandable reason is that it may be just a start-up company that just found the guts to submit their initial public offering. That should not be surprising anymore. The main reason why some companies sell stocks is to invite investors that can help them grow the company. They are blunt enough in getting the point across that this is more about bringing the money in first before calculating the profits later. Who knows if you end up having a hand in getting the profits contributed later on?

While it is not a bad thing to aspire for bigger returns regarding investments, dreaming big has its limits too, especially when the money that you have at the moment is all that you have. You may have heard about investors blindly misled into investing big simply because of the adage bigger risks, bigger rewards. This is only truer now when it comes to business efforts poured into the endeavor that doesnt always involve money like time and effort. Bigger returns is a phrase commonly found in certain shady deals like get-rich-quick schemes. Some deals are still too good to be true to be believed.

On the other hand, there are investment options that are more concerned about staying in the ballgame than distributing big dividends and profits. Its not that they dont care about their investors. Its just that theyre thinking long-term hence the not-so-groundbreaking profits posted. Profits are still part of the game plan but they are blunt enough to admit that the early months wont earn as big in anticipation of the longevity plan.