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Board Games, Coffee Cans, and Investing
By The Good Investors  •  July 24, 2020
David Gardner is the co-founder of The Motley Fool, and he’s one of the best stock market investors I know.  There’s a fascinating short story involving David that can be found in a 2016 Fool.com article written by Morgan Housel titled Two Short Stories to Put Successful Investing Into Context. In the article, Morgan shared a conversation he had with David. Once, Morgan spotted David playing video games at the Fool’s office and asked him in jest: “If you had to give up board games, video games, or stocks, which would you quit?” (For context, David is a huge fan of board games.) David’s response surprised Morgan: He would choose to quit stocks rather than board games or video games. Here’s Morgan recounting David’s brilliant explanation in Two Short Stories to Put Successful Investing Into Context“Games are hands-on by design. They are meant to be played, not left...
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By The Good Investors
We are Chong Ser Jing and Jeremy Chia, and we started The Good Investors in the aftermath of The Motley Fool Singapore’s closure in late 2019. We both have a passion for stock market investing and believe deeply in enriching society through our investing activities. One way we can do so is through investor-education. The Good Investors is our personal investing blog and will serve as a free platform for both of us to openly share our investing thoughts with you.
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