{"id":5015,"date":"2025-08-28T13:05:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/insight\/?p=249"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:02:37","slug":"investing-wisdom-howard-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2025\/08\/investing-wisdom-howard-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing Wisdom from Howard Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The three most common investor mistakes are: Trying to predict the future, assuming trends will continue forever, and making emotional decisions.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s from the legendary investor Howard Marks, who sat down with the hosts of the &#8220;My First Million&#8221; podcast to discuss his long and successful career. It\u2019s an insightful conversation that underscores how much of investing is a matter of understanding human behavior, not just number crunching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Risk comes from how <em>people <\/em>behave, not from the companies themselves [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWntNpgDCZk&amp;t=146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">02:26<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Think about your portfolio in terms of a mix of aggressive and defensive assets [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWntNpgDCZk&amp;t=618\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">10:18<\/a>]<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme&#8230; Patterns in human behavior are key to spotting market cycles [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cWntNpgDCZk&amp;t=1036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">17:16<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Howard Marks sharing 79 years of Investing Wisdom in 55 minutes is a real gem&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Howard Marks: 79 Years of Investing Wisdom in 55 Minutes\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cWntNpgDCZk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#Investing #BehavioralFinance #Business #Economy #Markets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The three most common investor mistakes are: Trying to predict the future, assuming trends will continue forever, and making emotional decisions.&#8221; That&#8217;s from the legendary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[9,26],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-ideas","tag-quality","tag-resources"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5117,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}