One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 (Paperback)

Published by Stanfordpub.com, United States(2019)

ISBN 10: 9563101286ISBN 13: 9789563101287

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About this Item: Stanfordpub.com, United States, 2019. Paperback. Condition: New. Language: English. Brand new Book. One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is the book that Warren Buffett's biographers credit with shaping the legendary investor's business acumen and giving him his trademark appreciation of compound interest. After pulling a copy of One Thousand Ways off a library shelf at age eleven and devouring the practical business advice, Buffett declared that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 35. Written in the immediate, conversational style of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, this book is full of inventive ideas on how to make money through excellent salesmanship, hard work, and resourcefulness. While some of the ideas may seem quaint today-goat dairying, manufacturing motor-driven chairs, and renting out billiard tables to local establishments are among the money-making ideas presented- the underlying fundamentals of business explained in these pages remain as solid as they were over seventy years ago. Covering a wide spectrum of topics including investing, marketing, merchandising, sales, customer relations, and raising money for charity, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000 is both a durable, classic business book and a fascinating portrait of determined entrepreneurship in Depression-era America. Every effort has been made to reproduce the content exactly as it was originally presented. 'I like numbers, it started before I can remember,' Buffett tells a group of Omaha Central High School students in the film. A voracious reader his entire life, at age seven he read a book he borrowed from the library, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000, and, inspired by its lessons, began selling Coca-Cola, gum and newspapers. His father, a salesman who survived the Depression, was elected to Congress when Buffett was 12, moving the family to Washington. Displaced and unhappy, Buffett lost interest in academics, attending the University of Nebraska at his father's insistence; he was turned down for admission by the Harvard Business School. This rejection was propitious: Buffett discovered that two of his financial idols, Ben Graham and David Dodd, taught at the Columbia Business School; he wrote them a letter and was accepted there. From Graham he learned what he calls the 'two rules of investing' 'Rule #1: Never lose money. Rule #2: Never forget Rule #1.'. Seller Inventory # AAV9789563101287

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What better way is there to learn something than from a person who's already very good at it?

And when it comes to investing, what better investor is there to learn from than Warren Buffett?

But of course, you may be wondering: How did he get so good in the first place?

Of mentors and men
Most people -- OK, most investing geeks -- know that Buffett was an ardent devotee of deep value investor Benjamin Graham, who taught him to look for dollar bills selling for 50 cents. Buffett's investing later evolved through his association with Charlie Munger, and now he prefers a great company at a good price over a good company at a great price.

But before all of that, when he was still quite young, he learned the fundamental lessons of his investing life through a book titled A Thousand Ways to Make $1,000.

Multiply, multiply, multiply
That book gave Buffett his legendary appreciation for compounding -- the way time plus investment makes money multiply.

Check out how $1,000 will grow over long periods, at the market's historic average growth rate of 10%:

That 10% return, over 70 years, really adds up. Investing matters.

Start yesterday
The authors of that book also urged readers to not put off making money -- because the annualized return is only one piece of the puzzle. How long the money has to compound is the other.

Just look at that table again. The same $1,000 compounding for 60 years will add up to less than half of that amount if it compounds for 70 years.

If you start investing early, it can be hard to not end up rich. Buffett was a pre-teen when he read about compounding -- too bad for us that we often grasp its power when we're in our 30s or 40s or later.

So what?
Given that you probably are in your 30s or 40s or later (most investors are), what good does all of this advice do?

If you're 10 or 20 or 30 years from retirement and just now starting to invest, you might not end up with millions. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't start now. Even if you just invest in a broad-market index fund and earn the historical average of 10% per year, that rate of return will turn a nest egg of $100,000 into more than $670,000 in 20 years. If you add money every year, the figure will become much, much greater.

And sure, that 10% figure might seem, um, generous given our current economy, but remember that it's an average over many, many years, including those of the Great Depression. When it comes to investing -- and compounding -- you want to think in terms of decades, not years.

Great companies
But how do you get those 10% returns? You can invest in a broad-market index fund, of course. For a chance at market-beating returns, however, you'll need to add some individual companies to your mix.

Buffett looks for companies generating growing streams of money. You can screen for the same thing to get a list of companies worth further research.

Here are some large-cap possibilities I got when I screened for returns on equity (ROE) of 20% or more, three-year revenue growth of 10% or more, and four- or five-star ratings in our CAPS community -- all indications that a company is worth a second glance.

Data: CAPS, Fool.com.

Good prices

You really don't need 1,000 ways to make $1,000. Time and the compounding it brings are plenty. They're the foundations of Buffett's investing prowess -- but it's also important to buy great companies at good prices.

That's what we look for at Motley Fool Inside Value. Like Buffett, we're on the hunt for dollar bills selling for 50 cents -- and our current depressed market is offering a lot of bargains these days. You can even take a free, 30-day guest pass and see all of our current and former recommendations. Click here to get started -- there's no obligation to subscribe.

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Longtime Fool contributor Selena Maranjian owns shares of Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola is a Motley Fool Inside Value selection. The Motley Fool isFools writing for Fools.