Alain Guillot

Life, Leadership, and Money Matters

Tag: innovation

  • From the Roman Empire to Today: How the U.S. Became the World’s Economic Leader

    From the Roman Empire to Today: How the U.S. Became the World’s Economic Leader

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    For the past 20 years that I have been investing in the stock market, I’ve learned from numerous finance books and blogs that the best way to grow and preserve capital is to diversify across different types of securities (bonds, stocks, cash, etc.) and, within the equity portion of the portfolio, to diversify globally. Forget…

  • Global Diversification Is A myth

    Global Diversification Is A myth

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    Why I am giving up on global diversification and putting all my money in the U.S. stock market. Early in my journey as an investor, I was led to believe that the smartest thing I could do for my portfolio was to diversify globally. So, I did. I had a bit of everything in my…

  • NVIDIA passed the 3 trillion mark and is more valuable than Apple

    NVIDIA passed the 3 trillion mark and is more valuable than Apple

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    That’s of no surprise, ever since the death of Steve Jobs, Apple has lost it’s innovation edge. Tim Cook is a great operator who has taken Steve Jobs legacy as far as could, but Tim Cook is not Jobs. For those of us who own at least a little bit of NVIDIA, let’s open that…

  • Elon Musk on what kind of business to start

    Elon Musk on what kind of business to start

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    What business young people should focus on? Elon Musk: “I think it’s important to focus on something that you are personally passionate about, that you personally care about. It’s very hard to be motivated for a product that you don’t really feel strongly about. And it doesn’t have to be high-tech, it could be in…

  • Margaret Thatcher on income inequality and Why the rich deserve to be richer

    Margaret Thatcher on income inequality and Why the rich deserve to be richer

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    Margaret Thatcher was a British Prime Minister and she was called the Iron Lady by friends and enemies. When people argue against income inequality, they would rather have the poor be poorer, provided that the rich where less rich. It doesn’t bother me that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are billionaires. I think that policies…

  • What’s not going to change in the next 10 years? Jeff Bezos

    What’s not going to change in the next 10 years? Jeff Bezos

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    I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ And that is a very interesting question; it’s a very common one. “I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important…