The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth Ignore Wall Street and Get on with Your Life FROM THE PUBLISHER
The investment journey you are about to embark on will not show you how to pick hot funds and cool stocks, analyze balance sheets, predict business cycles or forecast interest rates. This investment journey simply reveals the three principles of investing and explains why these principles are infinitely more important to your investment success than all the "stock market experts" who try to convince us they know more than we do about all this hot and cool stuff.
In fact, we will discover that one of the requirements for a successful journey is to ignore the "stock market experts" of today in much the same way Aristotle ignored the "flat world experts" 2,400 years ago when suggesting that the earth was round.
Oh by the way, the last time I climbed Mt. Rainer, I stopped just short of the 14,410-foot summit to drink some water and eat some food, and while hanging onto the side of a glacier at about five in the morning I looked over my shoulder (briefly, because I suffer from acrophobia) and saw the sun...
rise...
and somewhere between Canada to the north and Oregon to the south, I think I detected a slight curve on the earth's horizon...