Morgan Housel
20 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 28, 2022 by Morgan Housel · said 9 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Apr 28, 2022 positive
Morgan Housel advises investors to save like pessimists and invest like optimists
“Save like a pessimist and invest like an optimist. Like if you can save like a pessimist with the idea that all of history is a continuous chain of surprises and setbacks and disappointments and pandemics and all these things that like suck. And all of history…”
Apr 28, 2022
Housel: Experiencing both poverty and wealth in childhood provides rare perspective
“I think seeing both sides of that is important because I feel like most people growing up only see one side of it. Maybe they grow up poor, maybe they grow up very wealthy, and it's relatively the same throughout their childhood.”
Apr 28, 2022
Housel: Preparing for unforeseen risks requires seemingly excessive financial cushions
“What that really means is having a layer of cushion in your finances that doesn't make sense. A layer of conservatism that Seems like it's excessive. Because the only way that you're going to prepare for the events that you cannot imagine, that you cannot fore…”
Apr 28, 2022 positive
Housel: COVID will produce completely unforeseeable downstream breakthroughs within a decade
“There's going to be things 10 years from now that would be so absurd that you and I 10 years from now will be like, hey, because of COVID, we have the X, whatever it might be, and connecting those dots is going to be like the craziest thing you've ever imagine…”
Apr 28, 2022 positive
Housel: Parents must love the child they have, not the child they want
“Love the kid that you have, not the kid that you want. That is a little bit of preparation to say that your child is going to be hard in unique ways. Every child is hard in their unique ways, and every child is going to do things that you didn't expect and tha…”
Apr 28, 2022
Housel: Two friends died in Lake Tahoe avalanche when he was 17
“Two of my friends growing up with, that we were skiing together all that, that day, and they did an extra run where I wasn't with them. I was going to go pick them up at this out-of-bounds area where we would ski, and they were killed in an avalanche during th…”
Apr 28, 2022 positive
Housel: Reading non-financial history books provides insights into investing
“The most consistent is probably history books. That's probably the, like takes up the lion's share. They have absolutely nothing to do with investing or the economy most of the time, but they're just, I just think they're insights into how people think. And if…”
Apr 28, 2022 neutral
Apr 28, 2022 neutral
Housel: Tracing complex event chains reveals why forecasting the future is so difficult
“I think anytime you'd really piece together why a chain of events has happened, if you're really honest about the long chain of events of how you got there, it could be so absurd that you realize that it's how hard it is to predict things.”
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Apr 28, 2022 positive
Housel: Apologizing kindly in DMs de-escalates online trolls every time
“If someone says something really terrible about me on Twitter, just really like, not just casual trolling, but just really mean. I will, I mean, 99% of the time I ignore that, but once in a while I've DM that person and I've said, Hey, I'm really sorry I offen…”
Apr 28, 2022 positive
Housel: Prioritizing Durability Over Forecasting Lets Investors Capture Positive Surprises
“So to me, one of the most important things here when you have humility and forecasting is such a preference for survivorship and endurance and durability so that you can stick around long enough for those positive surprises to actually pay off.”
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Apr 28, 2022 neutral
Apr 28, 2022
Housel: You can be an amazing economist without studying economics
“You can be an amazing economist if you don't really have any economics background, but you're, but you really understand psychology. You really understand politics. You really understand sociology. You really understand, like all these things, all these differ…”
Apr 28, 2022
Housel: Eliminating internal insecurity leads to destructive ego and failure
“I'd say if you don't have that insecurity, the absence of that insecurity is probably the definition of ego. And like, I think you want that insecurity. You shouldn't try to get rid of that. Once you get rid of it, that's when you're screwed.”
Apr 28, 2022
Housel: The biggest economic stories of the next decade are currently unmentioned
“I guarantee you the biggest economic news story over the next 12 months is something that no one on Twitter or anywhere else is talking about. And the biggest story of the next decade is something that no one is talking about.”