The Most Important Thing
Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor
Howard Marks
The Most Important Thing collects Howard Marks's memos on risk, cycles, and second-level thinking. ChartClub lists it as an investing risk book. It is not a trading setup text, and it does not need its own category.
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- Author
- Howard Marks
- Publisher
- Columbia Business School Publishing
- Year
- 2011
- Pages
- 200
Key takeaways
- The subject is investment risk, not chart entries.
- A winning period is not the same thing as skill.
- Investing context is carried in tags, not a new category.
Tags
- risk
- psychology
- decision-making
- value-investing
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