CHAPTER 15Chris SaccaDealing with Regret
My intention was to minimize my future regret.
—Harry Markowitz
The point of this book was not to teach you how to avoid lousy investments. Rather, it is to show you that lousy investments cannot be avoided. Tough times are simply a part of the deal. There is not an investor alive who has hit 1,000%; in fact, nobody has come even close. One of the main reasons why consistent success eludes investors is because we simply don't have much experience making financial decisions. Homo sapiens have been around for thousands of generations, hunting and gathering and protecting the nest. Investing and saving for retirement, however, is something very foreign to us, and we're only now just learning some of ...
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