Safal Niveshak's Manifesto of a Small

Investor
I think therefore I am.
Ren Descartes
Im an investor. I was a speculator earlier. Life
was sometimes bright, but mostly difficult then.
ut now Im an investor. !nd my life is good.
In fact, very good. "or too long, my fragile ego
was dependent on the affirmations of others.
#hen someone said this, I believed this. #hen
someone said that, I believed that. $his plagued
me for years. %o I gave up. !nd I found that I
was not alone. $his manifesto is my
outstretched hand to others who feel the same
tension between investing for the future&and
speculating on the future.
' ! %mall Investor
I am an investor. I am not a speculator.
I am not as brave as my broker thinks I am.
Therefore, for me, it's always about "Margin
of Safety".
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atience is a virtue for me. I resist the natural
human bias to act.
I know if I keep at har! work an! honesty, I
will get almost anything in life. Investing isn't
!ifferent.
I know luck, like love, is a verb. So only when
I !o the work, when I practice, I will get
lucky.
I know what matters most in investing is not
what I invest in, but when an! at what price.
I focus on avoi!ing losses much more than
pursuing profits.
I !on't try to pre!ict the future. I always
prepare for it.
I respect market cycles because I know what
the wise man !oes in the beginning, the fool
!oes in the en!.
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I always remember that the number one "ob
of an investor is not to make a lot of money,
but to control risk.
I know in investing, there is no free
lunch...an! no one has all the answers.
I know investing is all about #$%$&...#lways
%e &areful.
I know there is no easy roa!. The moment I
believe the roa! is easy is the moment I will
put myself at great risk.
'or me, there is no such thing as getting rich
(uick. )uckily, I have fallen in love with the
process an! the "ourney, not the money.
I sincerely follow what (harlie )unger said,
*!ll I want to know is where I+m going to die, so
I won+t go there.*
I remin! myself often+ I am an investor.
$his is but one manifesto. I am sure $here is other stirring somewhere inside you.
It is up to you to find and connect with it. I hope you will.
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