Individual investors have become far more powerful than anyone gives them credit for. Today, 85 million Americans invest in stocks. Collectively, that kind of buying and selling power can move markets.
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More and more investors may be coming into markets everywhere but that doesn't mean that the markets are really getting more and more efficient, even in the United States. It does mean that there is more access for savvy investors who watch the money flows.
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.
There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.
I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.
I think that stocks have been this tremendous, tremendous equalizer for people in this country. Guys who can't make a lot of money at their jobs have been able to make a lot of money in the stock market.
Big money is made in the stock market by being on the right side of the major moves. The idea is to get in harmony with the market. It's suicidal to fight trends. They have a higher probability of continuing than not.
But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.
Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?
You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.
I think good private equity investors create a lot more economic value than they destroy.
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