“Rule Breaker Investing” Audiobook Sneak Peek

On this podcast, we have a 5-minute pay attention from Chapter 3 of David Gardner’s newest Rule Breaker Investing e book. In “After Yesterday,” David tells the CNBC story of a co-host shocked that he nonetheless favored cloud shares and why Rule Breaker buyers do not let yesterday’s tape write tomorrow’s script. Benefit from the excerpt, then share it with a pal who might use a wiser, happier, and richer mindset.

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A full transcript is beneath.

This podcast was recorded on Sept. 13, 2025.

David Gardner: Hey, Fools. Joyful weekend. David right here with a fast Rule Breaker investing Weekend Further. I’ve acquired one thing particular for you in the present day. It is a 5 minute pay attention in from the Rule Breaker Investing audio e book, which arrives simply days away September 16, alongside the hardcover and the eBook variations. Now, for those who’re an audible fan otherwise you identical to listening to concepts reasonably than studying them, that is your sneak peek, or pay attention. A fast phrase on what you are about to listen to. This excerpt captures the spirit of my e book, sensible, optimistic, perhaps just a little mischievous, equal elements, habits, inventory selecting traits, and portfolio rules, all in service of creating us smarter, happier, and richer. That is the beginning of Chapter 3. It is in my very own voice, after all, with just a few factors you might acknowledge as a daily listener of this podcast and a narrative you most likely have not heard but. In the event you take pleasure in it, you’ll be able to pre order wherever you get your books and audio books. Here is a professional tip. Pre orders helps sign to the world that buyers nonetheless learn and pay attention. If somebody in your life might use a pleasant on ramp to investing, and ship them this episode, contemplate it the audio appetizer earlier than the principle course lands on September 16. Sufficient for me. Let’s queue it up, producer Bart Shannon, 5 minutes from the Rule Breaker Investing Audio E-book. I hope it entertains right here in your weekend as a Weekend Further, and I hope this audio e book, pays for itself many instances over within the years to return. Let’s get began. Idiot on.

You continue to like Cloud computing shares? The host queried me throughout the industrial break. After yesterday, I used to be co internet hosting the early morning CNBC market Present with a wise younger anchor. Our views could not have been additional aside. In the course of the first industrial break, I might talked about a number of of my favourite shares like Salesforce, and her jaw dropped. The Cloud computing sector had offered off 7-10% the day earlier than. You continue to like cloud computing shares after yesterday? My co host, we will name her after yesterday, wasn’t a day dealer or a excessive frequency buying and selling supercomputer. This was a properly educated, profitable broadcast journalist who acquired up at daybreak to cowl the markets. Folks tuned in to her to study the times ins and outs of enterprise and market developments. Besides perhaps in a way, she was a day dealer. Anybody who follows the markets for a residing and makes different folks really feel like rubes for nonetheless liking a inventory after yesterday would appear to be day buying and selling the headlines, tendencies, and buzz, even when not day buying and selling the inventory market. In the event you comply with one thing minute by minute, each zig zag, move, shot, or deal with turns into noteworthy. You enlarge it, and heck, after yesterday is not being paid for her monetary recommendation, she’s nice at what she does. Anchoring reside TV at any hour of the day is a demanding job. Simply do not confuse her perspective with monetary experience or let it information your cash. I might guess some folks watching CNBC suppose the alternative. In most features of life, I might wager after yesterday is properly mannered and exemplary. It is solely with the inventory market that she thinks and certain acts opposite to her and your finest outcomes, ironic and loopy. In the event you ever marvel how frequent capital F Fools such as you and me can outperform Wall Avenue and its indices, you now know your reply.

The surest method to beat the market over time entails sustaining the identical equanimity and perspective together with your cash that you just do in different features of your life. Perhaps Billy Joel crooned the best funding secret of all, do not go altering. In different phrases, purchase shares to maintain them, not commerce them. You will achieve this significantly better for those who make investments for a minimum of three years. In case your absolute minimal holding interval is lower than three years, you are doing it unsuitable. We frequently misunderstand what make investments means and what investing seems to be like. The Latin root for make investments is investire, which means to placed on the garments, put on the clothes. Consider a associated phrase like priestly vestments. Image followers carrying the jerseys of their favourite groups. As they stroll to the stadium, discover the way in which to their seats, cheer their workforce on, they’re sporting the house workforce colours. And whether or not their workforce wins or loses, they preserve that jersey on. Whether or not their workforce has a great or dangerous season, they preserve that jersey on. Why? As a result of they’re deeply invested. Mockingly, many could also be extra invested of their sports activities groups than in one thing of way more worth the monetary investments they make. Sports activities followers know their workforce shouldn’t be going to win each recreation or 12 months. Rule Breaker buyers know the identical of our shares. In the event you discover an ideal workforce, keep it up. Placing on the garments might be literal. Folks put on shirts with an Apple brand, love their Lululemon’s, have Harley tattooed on their shoulder. These usually are not the identical folks. You probably have brand clothes in your wardrobe. My needs for you might be A, that you just personal these shares, and B, that these investments will outlast your garments. Whether or not or not you may have the shirt but, I would like you to like the businesses you are invested in. My portfolio contains enterprises that I consider do good issues on this world, are function pushed, handle for the long run, present resilience, exhibit optionality. I consider their success results in a greater world. Once you’re really invested like this, it is pure, even in onerous instances to maintain that jersey on. If folks handled monetary investments like their lifelong emotional investments of their sports activities groups, they’d be smarter, happier, and richer.