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The Motley Fool Guide to Investing for Beginners
“I know how important it is to invest, I just don’t know how to get started.”That’s the refrain we at The Motley Fool hear dozens of times every day. So we’ve created a guide that will show you (or a friend or relative who’s just getting started): * How much you need to start investing. * The key steps for building long-term wealth. * Proven ways to find great companies to buy.Understanding these life-changing concepts will get any investor on the path to financial freedom.Built upon our 13 Steps to Investing Foolishly, The Motley Fool Guide to Investing for Beginners includes our top investors’ biggest mistakes, insights into different styles of investing, and much more. Plus, you get 3 great stock picks that we think could make a strong foundation to any portfolio.
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82 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 26, 2015
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March 31, 2015
A Great Place to Start
Full disclosure: I'm a total Fool and yes, I work at The Motley Fool so my review may be somewhat biased. But that doesn't make what this book teaches any less true. This is an excellent read for the beginning investor and a wonderful reminder for all investors of just how easy it really can be and how important this subject truly is. Foolish investing is about investing in great businesses on a consistent basis, in the ups and downs, and letting time do the rest. This book helps hammer that point (and many more) home. Worth the read!
Full disclosure: I'm a total Fool and yes, I work at The Motley Fool so my review may be somewhat biased. But that doesn't make what this book teaches any less true. This is an excellent read for the beginning investor and a wonderful reminder for all investors of just how easy it really can be and how important this subject truly is. Foolish investing is about investing in great businesses on a consistent basis, in the ups and downs, and letting time do the rest. This book helps hammer that point (and many more) home. Worth the read!
May 4, 2018
Finally a book that doesn't tell you to stop wasting money at Starbucks, but rather to give Starbucks more of your money.
September 19, 2020
Excellent primer on the Motley Fool approach to personal finance
In some respects, the Motley Fool Guide to Investing for Beginners is super basic. But in other respects it highlights advanced topics for further study. This book is more about financial planning than investing, but elements of investing are included.
It’s written in a light, informative and fun manner which helps you get through the drier portions of the book and includes essays from several Motley Fool personalities. As for the three stock picks at the end of the book, they are still solid companies to this day with 3-year performance gains of 55%, 31%, and 137% respectively. In summary, this is an excellent primer on the Motley Fool approach to personal finance.
In some respects, the Motley Fool Guide to Investing for Beginners is super basic. But in other respects it highlights advanced topics for further study. This book is more about financial planning than investing, but elements of investing are included.
It’s written in a light, informative and fun manner which helps you get through the drier portions of the book and includes essays from several Motley Fool personalities. As for the three stock picks at the end of the book, they are still solid companies to this day with 3-year performance gains of 55%, 31%, and 137% respectively. In summary, this is an excellent primer on the Motley Fool approach to personal finance.
June 4, 2021
Excellent basic read!
Helps you feel confident to start your investing journey. This doesn’t promise you the winning lottery ticket (i.e. strategy), but more so the tools to start you in the most sound direction, so you don’t just sink from the get go due to total ignorance. Short and excellent read.
Helps you feel confident to start your investing journey. This doesn’t promise you the winning lottery ticket (i.e. strategy), but more so the tools to start you in the most sound direction, so you don’t just sink from the get go due to total ignorance. Short and excellent read.
June 4, 2019
Good summarized analysis
This is short and straightforward. Keep in mind that it is intended to show what Motley Fool offers to the public, so expect references to their products and services. Anyway, I found it handy and useful.
This is short and straightforward. Keep in mind that it is intended to show what Motley Fool offers to the public, so expect references to their products and services. Anyway, I found it handy and useful.
February 27, 2018
I found it very informative and written in plain beginner language that anyone can understand.
January 27, 2021
Anyone who wants to know about how to get into the stock market, read this first
April 9, 2020
I gotta admit, I've been really into investing as of late. Because honestly, if we are just going to put our money in the bank, it will not be able to keep up with inflation.
And as a beginner in the world of investing, I find this book really helpful! It's straight forward and easy to understand. The best takeaway I got from it, and what I've been going by a lot right now, is asking myself if a certain purchase is a "good investment".
So now, instead of blindly buying stuff, I stop and ask myself:
Is this the best investment I can make with this dollar bill?
From there, I'd be able to identify if buying a certain item is more of a want than need. Thus, consciously making smarter money choices with my purchases.
I also like the fact that they have a realistic take on investing and/or saving money. It takes account of us small folks who are just getting by. That's why reading this was not daunting at all. In a way, it gives you hope that even you can invest and make yourself rich. BECAUSE THE BEST TIME TO INVEST IS NOW.
So if you're like me and you want to start investing, click my link below so both of us can get a free stock on Robinhood:
join.robinhood.com/alexan21
And as a beginner in the world of investing, I find this book really helpful! It's straight forward and easy to understand. The best takeaway I got from it, and what I've been going by a lot right now, is asking myself if a certain purchase is a "good investment".
So now, instead of blindly buying stuff, I stop and ask myself:
Is this the best investment I can make with this dollar bill?
From there, I'd be able to identify if buying a certain item is more of a want than need. Thus, consciously making smarter money choices with my purchases.
I also like the fact that they have a realistic take on investing and/or saving money. It takes account of us small folks who are just getting by. That's why reading this was not daunting at all. In a way, it gives you hope that even you can invest and make yourself rich. BECAUSE THE BEST TIME TO INVEST IS NOW.
So if you're like me and you want to start investing, click my link below so both of us can get a free stock on Robinhood:
join.robinhood.com/alexan21
June 26, 2019
Book 18 of 2018
Do you invest in stocks? Think people are more likely to avoid stocks as much as possible due to the "risk" that is involved. I used to be one of those people. Common response from people are "I would like to but I just don't have the time." Again, I made the same excuse as well. Reading this book has changed my life in the way I think about stocks. I now have more confidence about stocks and consider myself a Fool.
You would think if there is anyone who should be confident about stocks, it would be me. Humble brag here but my undergrad degree is in business and have received my MBA not too long ago. None of my business related classes had any practical use when it comes to investing in the stock market. These guys break it down for anyone to understand.
Even using their methods, the task is daunting because there are literally thousands and thousands of stocks. So I think people at this point give up and look to pay for services like an advisor or turn to mutual funds. The books goes over the cons over those two options. This is where Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor premium service comes in to play. I think it is well worth your money to subscribe. They do all the work for you and you can just pick and choose from their list. One thing I'll admit is that they do some serious advertising that can get annoying at times.
Their Stock Advisor has been around since 2002 and they’ve made recommendation such as Amazon (AMZN) when it was $15.31 or Disney (DIS) at $1.83 or Netflix (NFLX) at $2.33. Get my point?
Now if you don’t like paying for a service, you can also get stock samplers on the Rule Breaker Investor podcast. You can go through the listing of podcasts and look for stock samplers. I think those sample picks alone have out performed the S&P 500 over the years.
For long term investing, I don’t think you can go wrong with stocks. Put it this way, during one of the worst recessions in 2006-2008, stock market not only bounced back to higher levels but have since performed amazingly just like it did during the Great Depression. There has been no point in our history where the market has not rebounded higher than what it was before so it does not bother me when I hear that market fell or crashed because I know it is going to go back up.
Books like this are ones that everyone must read and earlier the better. I’ve since gifted my books to several people trying to pass on the knowledge. I’ve made significant investment in stock market and have been beating the average market return. Any Fools out there?
www.mybookcritic.com
Do you invest in stocks? Think people are more likely to avoid stocks as much as possible due to the "risk" that is involved. I used to be one of those people. Common response from people are "I would like to but I just don't have the time." Again, I made the same excuse as well. Reading this book has changed my life in the way I think about stocks. I now have more confidence about stocks and consider myself a Fool.
You would think if there is anyone who should be confident about stocks, it would be me. Humble brag here but my undergrad degree is in business and have received my MBA not too long ago. None of my business related classes had any practical use when it comes to investing in the stock market. These guys break it down for anyone to understand.
Even using their methods, the task is daunting because there are literally thousands and thousands of stocks. So I think people at this point give up and look to pay for services like an advisor or turn to mutual funds. The books goes over the cons over those two options. This is where Motley Fool’s Stock Advisor premium service comes in to play. I think it is well worth your money to subscribe. They do all the work for you and you can just pick and choose from their list. One thing I'll admit is that they do some serious advertising that can get annoying at times.
Their Stock Advisor has been around since 2002 and they’ve made recommendation such as Amazon (AMZN) when it was $15.31 or Disney (DIS) at $1.83 or Netflix (NFLX) at $2.33. Get my point?
Now if you don’t like paying for a service, you can also get stock samplers on the Rule Breaker Investor podcast. You can go through the listing of podcasts and look for stock samplers. I think those sample picks alone have out performed the S&P 500 over the years.
For long term investing, I don’t think you can go wrong with stocks. Put it this way, during one of the worst recessions in 2006-2008, stock market not only bounced back to higher levels but have since performed amazingly just like it did during the Great Depression. There has been no point in our history where the market has not rebounded higher than what it was before so it does not bother me when I hear that market fell or crashed because I know it is going to go back up.
Books like this are ones that everyone must read and earlier the better. I’ve since gifted my books to several people trying to pass on the knowledge. I’ve made significant investment in stock market and have been beating the average market return. Any Fools out there?
www.mybookcritic.com
February 15, 2017
I've had this book on my personal shelf for years...I've just gotten to do some research in it and it has helped me understand the DOW Jones a bit better. The book has also helped me understand the importance of compound interest. If you are a new investor or need to brush up on basic investing skills this is the book for you. It points you in the right directions and makes you yearn to close it and get to work on building your own portfolio.
September 7, 2019
My rating says it all. You can learn a lot from this quick useful read so don't hesitate to pay a couple dollars to get this on kindle!
July 28, 2015
A short introduction to buying and owning stocks. No surprises and this a book to a very novice person with extremely low or no knowledge about stocks. I guess I was expecting a little bit more deep information on how to pick stocks, how to read financial reports or whatever.
If you know anything about stocks, then you don't need to read this book.
If you know anything about stocks, then you don't need to read this book.
April 25, 2015
Getting Started
What a great book to get someone started with investing. I love the Fool's way of explaining thinks in a simple way. I'm looking forward to reading an intermediate book from the Fool. Thanks so much for the great read.
What a great book to get someone started with investing. I love the Fool's way of explaining thinks in a simple way. I'm looking forward to reading an intermediate book from the Fool. Thanks so much for the great read.
August 3, 2015
Nice short read for beginners like myself to get started in investing. Will read again for review to keep myself in tune
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