Hello ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Decoding The Legends Podcast.  In this episode, I am going to explain some of the key investment principles given by Warren Buffet for common investors like you and me. Pay close attention to these principles and in fact, you may consider listening to this particular episode once a month to reinforce these points firmly in your mind. So, with that intro, let's begin. 

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In this episode, we are going to talk about how Warren Buffett looks at gold and other non-productive assets. By the title of the episode itself, you must have figured that out already but let’s see his reasons for why he thinks these are not great investment options. We spoke about the other one, Currency based investments, in the previous topic and if you haven’t listened to it, check that out.

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In his 2011 letter to shareholders, Warren Buffett explained three choices for common investors and what investment choice he thinks to be the best for most of the investors, which includes you and me. The first one among these is currency-based investments. You can listen to his valuable advice here and avoid making serious investment mistakes. I have modified the text to make it simpler without losing the context. Enjoy. 

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If you want to make it big in the investing world, there is no one out there who is as good as Warren Buffett. Every year since 1966, Warren has written about his investment philosophy in detail in his letters to Berkshire shareholders. These are indispensable gems he has left for us. It would be outrageously ignorant not to learn from this master. Anyone even remotely interested in investing should make this a compulsory reading before jumping into the investing sea.  This investing sea, though provides abundant opportunities, inhabits monsters and unforgiving currents that may kill you financially. Warren Buffett's letters will guide you as to where to jump, how to swim and sail safely through this incredible journey.

With our busy schedules, reading all the reports may become difficult.  Judging by the lengths of these reports, you may feel discouraged to even start and walk through to the end. To make this easy, I have created audio versions of these letters, available exclusively on my podcast - 'Decoding The Legends'. I hope you find these useful. Let me know your thoughts on these letters in the comments sections.

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Hii guys. This is Rohit and I welcome you all to my new Podcast - Decoding the Legends. Here, we peek into the lives of the legends of the world and get inspired. So without any further ado, let’s just jump onto the second part of our Elon Musk series. If you want to read this out, you may get a transcript at 

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If you would like to know more about other high achievers and world changers, do let me know in the comments and I will bring their inspiring stories for you to enjoy.  

This is the first part of Elon Musk's inspiring story. Hope you guys enjoy it. If you want the transcript version you may get it here

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So, in the earlier part of we spoke about the circle of competence and we also looked at how to use various screeners to narrow down the list of the stocks for further research. Now, these are two important concepts because, understand, that there are around 2,800 companies listed in the Indian stock markets. If you belong to the US market, then there will be around 27,000 companies listed. So, it's humanly impossible to research every company. So by using a circle of competence concept and ways to screen stocks, you will bring that huge list to a more manageable number. Now let’s say that you have identified around 10 industries that you would like to do further research and let’s say that in every industry there are around 10 to 12 companies. Then, that still will leave you with around 100 and 120 companies. Now the problem in front of you is how to know which company is good and which company is bad. In this lesson, that is what we are going to talk about. We are going to talk about how to segregate businesses from gruesome to great. So listen on. Happy investing.