Summary of Howard Marks, Paul Johnson & Bruce Greenwald's The Most Important Thing Illuminated

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Howard Marks, Paul Johnson & Bruce Greenwald's The Most Important Thing Illuminated in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights, and counterpoints of four renowned investors and investment educators: Christopher C. Davis (Davis Funds), Joel Greenblatt (Gotham Capital), Paul Johnson (Nicusa Capital), and Seth A. Klarman (Baupost Group).

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638158547

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Insights on Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing Illuminated

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The main reason few people are great investors is that no rule works all the time. The environment can't be controlled, and the circumstances that led to a particular outcome rarely recur.

#2

To succeed, you must first be patient. Second, you must have superior insight. Only a few are capable of superior insight, intuition, and sense of value, which are all required for consistently above-average returns.

#3

You must think differently than other investors in order to succeed. Being correct is not enough; you must be more correct than others.

#4

First-level thinking is when you believe a company is a good investment because everyone else believes it is. Second-level thinking is when you consider all the possible outcomes and plan for them. Only second-level thinkers consider the probability they’ll be correct and the consequences of their decisions.

#5

To outperform the average investor, you must be capable of outthinking the consensus. Are you. What makes you think so.

#6

Conventional behavior will yield conventional results, either good or bad. Only if your behavior is unconventional will your performance be unconventional, and only if your judgments are superior