David Gardner

I spent 15 years taking notes for it. I spent 41 years picking stocks for it. I spent 6 months writing it (and loved every moment). I hope you’ll love it too. 📗 My aim with Rule Breaker Investing is to make YOU: Smarter, Happier, and Richer.

☀️Happy Friday☀️ ➡️Busy week at TOI Global HQ: - great interviews in the queue - Sam Fankuchen on 🟦Blue Sky this week - 🟦Blue Sky Weekend Newsletter tomorrow - #1 NYT Bestselling author next week 📗 - And...forgot to mention...Founder Bill is a guest on Rule Breakers investing podcast this week sharing stories to "educate, amuse, and enrich." 🎧 🔗links.theoptimisminstitute.com @davidgfool #optimism #BlueSky

(Been wondering about this… can you confirm for me either way?) Someone just responded to my remark—“Dad joke.” Praise or blame?

It's mailbag time! Our final episode of April is as motley as ever, with @DavidGFool covering everything from buying in thirds instead of waiting for dips to one listener’s beautifully rebalanced "harbor-and-horizon" portfolio. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!

Most people start from survival, not comfort. But like this Fool Member said, it’s a spectrum. Every dollar saved puts more ground between you and the worst case. More say in what comes next. That’s financial freedom. 💛 #FinancialLiteracyMonth

$NXPI: Nice day! I first picked it for @TMFRuleBreakers on 3/23/11 at $23.93. Today, it rose $58.78 (26%). That's more than twice our @themotleyfool cost basis in a single day. So THAT's a spiffy 2-pop! 🦄🌟📈 Congrats, Breakers, and we are still holding. 🙂 #thisishowwedoit

cc @RBIPodcast @DavidGFool

A Blue Jays fan caught an Aaron Judge home run ball, and gave it to a young Yankees fan wearing a Judge shirt 🥹 What a guy 👏

Listen to @DavidGFool talk about the characteristics of a rule breaker during his discussion with @Ritholtz. Great investment philosophy if you are looking to find disruptive asymmetric opportunities. @themotleyfool

More shots from Fool One 💛 The room was buzzing when @TRanzetta of @NextGenPF joined @gkhalaf and Clarity to talk about the Freedometer hitting classrooms this fall. Recording from the session coming soon. Fool on!

“Therefore, every company with bad CEO's look undervalued because the markets smarter than just looking at the financial statements. It thinks about who's leading it, and many of the best companies of our time always look overvalued.” Well said, @DavidGFool. I can clearly sense the insightful right-brain perspective woven through your words, one of your signature strengths, and among the very first you encouraged me to study closely. Lisa Su stands as a compelling embodiment of this leadership style, and she continues to reap substantial rewards from it year to date. - Fool On ! open.spotify.com/episode/1g5okd…

Life is more beautiful when you have friends who know how to be friends.

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

@jaynew4 @MastersinB @Ritholtz JayNew, you’re too kind. 🙏 If I was “en fuego,” it’s because @Ritholtz brought the spark. 🔥😄 I appreciate you listening—and sharing it out. 🌈🙂👍🏻

@DavidGFool @MastersinB @Ritholtz just finished - call me a raving fan, but DG was en fuego this week and, if you're going to listen to one @DavidGFool interview to capture the most current 'message' this is the one. helps to know the lingo, of course.. #uncola

Really looking forward to joining @MastersinB with @Ritholtz this weekend on Bloomberg Radio. First time meeting. A very good man. Long-form. Great questions. Fool on!

The Freedometer is officially heading to schools this fall! 📈 We built this simulation to change the way students learn about money, and we are teaming up with @TRanzetta and @NextGenPF to help us get it into high school classrooms. Try it now today: → bit.ly/4sTW7gE

@DavidGFool @MastersinB @Ritholtz 💪💪always listen to Barry’s show and psyched to hear a familiar voice.

Here in brief is the method I’ve honed to optimize a two-week vacation: When you arrive in a new country, immediately proceed to the farthest, most remote, most distant place you intend to reach during the trip. If there is a small village, remote spa, a friend’s farm, or a wild place you plan on seeing on the trip, go there immediately. Do not stop near the airport. Do not rest overnight in the arrival city. Do not pause to acclimate. If at all possible proceed by plane, bus, jeep, car directly to the furthest point without interruption. Make it an overnight journey if you have to. Then once you reach your furthest point, unpack, explore, and work your way slowly back to the big city, wherever your international departure airport is. In other words you make a laser-straight rush for the end, and then meander back. Laser out, meander back. This method is somewhat contrary to many people’s first instincts, which are to immediately get acclimated to the culture in the landing city before proceeding to the hinterlands. The thinking is: get a sense of what’s going on, stock up, size up the joint. Then slowly work up to the more challenging, more remote areas. That’s reasonable, but not optimal because most big cities around the world are more similar than different. All big cities these days feel same-same on first arrival. In Laser-Back travel what happens is that you are immediately thrown into Very Different Otherness, the maximum difference that you will get on this trip. You go from your home to extreme differences so fast it is almost like the dissolve effect in a slide show. Bam! Your eyes are wide open. You are on your toes. All ears. And there at the end of the road (but your beginning), your inevitable mistakes are usually cheaper, easier to recover from, and more fun. You take it slower, no matter what country you are in. Then you use the allotted time to head back to the airport city, at whatever pace is your pace. But, when you arrive in the city after a week or so traveling in this strangeness, and maybe without many of the luxuries you are used to, you suddenly see the city the same way the other folks around you do. After eight days in less fancy digs, the bright lights, and smooth shopping streets, and late-night eateries dazzle you, and you embrace the city with warmth and eagerness. It all seems so … civilized and ingenious. It’s brilliant! The hustle and bustle are less annoying and almost welcomed. And the attractions you notice are the small details that natives appreciate. You see the city more like a native and less like a jaded tourist in a look-alike urban mall. You leave having enjoyed both the remote and the adjacent, the old and new, the slow and the fast, the small and the big. We’ve also learned that this intensity works best if we aim for 12 days away from home. That means 10 days for in-country experience, plus a travel day (or two) on each end. We’ve found from doing this many times, with many travelers of all ages and interests, 14 days on the ground is two days too many. There seems to be a natural lull at about 10 days of intense kinetic travel. People start to tune out a bit. So we cut it there and use the other days to come and go and soften the transitions. On the other hand 8 days feels like the momentum is cut short. So 10 days of intensity, and 12 days in a country is what we aim for. Laser-back travel is not foolproof, nor always possible, but on average it tends to work better than the other ways I’ve tried. #KKtraveltips

@DavidGFool @Mahany @RBIPodcast Thanks, @DavidGFool - that was a lot of fun!

Don't miss Founder Bill back with 🟦Blue Sky's first-ever guest, @DavidGFool!

Really enjoyed this episode. Filled with laughter and wisdom!