1/24/2008

Successful Investing

How to Become a Billionaire
By Tim Hanson January 22, 2008

http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2008/01/22/how-to-become-a-billionaire.aspx

We found the following most informative from Tim Hanson's excellent article.

"The secret to successful investing, then, is not found in any single strategy, but rather in picking the strategy that's right for you and executing it faithfully. As lauded NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran writes in his book Investment Fables, "Each strategy has the potential for success if it matches your risk preferences and time horizon and if you are careful about how you use it."
That's it. That's the secret. Because if you get too cute -- chasing hot sectors, buying high and selling low, and giving yourself only six months or less to master a given investment strategy -- you're simply setting yourself up for failure. "