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Common Stock Questions

Common Stock Questions

Does company have products or services with significant market potential to make a sizable increase in sales possible for the next several years?

Is management determined to develop products that will further increase sales?

How effective is the companies R&D?

Above average sales organization?

Worthwhile profit margins?

Outstanding labor and personnel relations?

Depth of management?

How good are companies cost analysis and accounting controls?

Are their any competitive advantages?

The Black Swan

The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb

Black Swan - Highly Improbably Event

  • Unpredictable
  • Massive Impact
  • Explain after the fact

Scalable Non - Scalable
Much more compensation Paid by Hour
Top takes all Even distribution
Extremistan Mediocristan

Ziad K. Abdelnour’s Investment Advice

I posted a new entry over on the WalkerTek blog, discussing the info from our meeting with Ziad K. Abdelnour.

Seeking Wisdom

Seeking Wisdom by Peter Bevelin

My notes from 2/8/09

Locus Communis - Commonplaces

Our life is what our thoughts make it - Marcus Aurelius (9)

I have called this principle natural selection, by which each slight variation is useful (11) - Charles Darwin

Human beings are pulled forward forward toward and by nature seek pleasure, whereas they flee from and reject pain (16) - Epicurus

Theres no such thing as society. There are men and women and there are families (21) - Margaret Thatcher

All individuals share self interest (21)

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