investing
8 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 21, 2021 by Shaan Puri · across every show →
Everything said about investing, oldest first
May 21, 2021
Puri: Never Invest Based on Somebody Else's Conviction
“Well, I would say like, you know, you never, you know, probably the best advice I could give is never invest on somebody else's conviction. Cause when they're wrong, it really leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Cause you didn't believe to begin with.”
Sep 8, 2021
Puri: Outsized Returns Require Making Non-Consensus Bets
“If everybody agrees it's a great investment, then the price is baked in, right? So ultimately, if you want to have any kind of outsized return, you have to be betting on something that not everybody is agreeing with you is a is a good investment.”
Sep 4, 2023 negative
Oct 17, 2023
Pessimists are right more often, but optimists get rich
“Pessimists get to be right and optimists get to be rich. And so one thing we'll see when we go through these, I think is that the times where we said, ah, it's not going to work. Those are the ones where we have a higher hit rate, right? Because pessimists nat…”
Apr 12, 2024 negative
Pabrai: Investing as a team prevents finding truly contrarian bets
“He goes, if you have a team, everybody just centers around the safe picks that we can all agree on. And he's like, you know, you'll never find the truly, truly contrarian hated and unloved things. If you invest as a team, because it's not a team sport.”
Sep 19, 2025
Puri: Investors succeed through inaction while operators succeed through action
“Operator. It's all about action. You know, it's all action, action, action. You got to do stuff, right? You're trying to do as many things as you can be super productive as an investor. It's like, sit on your hands. Inaction is your friend. All the money's mad…”
May 11, 2026 positive
Parr: Understanding human nature is more critical to investing than financial mechanics
“I think I realized that in order to be a world-class investor, finances are actually secondary to human nature. Financial trends change every decade, every handful of decades. Something will, some new thing will pop up, you know, SPACs are this new thing. So l…”
May 11, 2026
Puri: Great investors read heavily just to avoid overtrading
“It might be That one of the biggest leaks in investing is too much activity. And the remedy for too much activity is actually to just busy yourself with bridge and books and playing pickleball and doing other things so that you are not prone to just sitting th…”