Author: Harish Kawalkar

  • Warren Buffett Wisdom 1960 Letter – Review

    Warren Buffett start this letter with general market commentary on 1959 and 1960. As in 1960 the Industrial Average declined from 679 to 616 or 9.3% if dividend calculated the loss will be 6.3%, as per the Buffett guess the 90% of companies outperform the Industrial average. While on New York stock exchange 653 stocks…

  • Warren Buffett Wisdom 1959 Letter – Review

      Warren Buffett start this letter with general market commentary and advance decline ratios of stock. Most of the investment group like Tri-Continental corp. had a difficult time in comparison with the Industrial Average. “Most of you know I have been very apprehensive about general stock market levels for several years. To date, this caution…

  • 2 Golden Rules Of Warren Buffett On Investment Return Yardstick

    In today’s, over calculated, software world, we as an investor always calculates investment return in lot of ways. Investors do the return calculation, as per their own convenience. In today’s investment world, performance measurement in the field of equity investment has been largely corrupted and unclear with terms like, alpha, beta, sharp ratios etc, and…

  • The Great Indian Stock Market Story

    In Indian stock market, everyone wants to make money, not Indian specifically, everyone in equity market across the world, would like to make money, but the real question is, are people making money? I think yes, Few days back one of my friends had discussed with me, he is buying stocks because, there are bonus…

  • Special Report – The Study of a Value Investor

    “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” Benjamin Franklin First of all sorry for not writing regularly from last two months, I am busy in reading books and my personal work…. Today my special focus on two books, you can read about this book in my “Special Report – The Study of a Value…

  • My Stock Portfolio

    Few days back I have a discussion with one of my dear friend, Prasad, I always admire him for his rational advice. We are friend from college days, and we have regular discussion on various topic. One day he give me a call and discuss about stock market investing, after discussion I came to know,…

  • The Secret of Your Genius (The art of thinking clearly)

    Dear Readers, Big sorry from my end, that is from last so many days, I had not written a single word. The simple answer to this, I am quite busy in my personal life. Let’s Start with the Few Questions? To cover the chessboard with rice, putting one grain of rice on the first square,…

  • Valuable learning’s from Mr. Hemant Jain

      Today we have a meeting with our managing director Mr. Hemant Jain, the discussion goes on from business to life and the wisdom he shares is much more valuable. So I decided to share with all of you. He has a rich experience and lot of wisdom. Let’s Explore, Don’t be Average: Don’t be…

  • Principles of Success

    There is no secret formula for success, but there are different principles for different peoples, but there are common principles you can easily find in successful peoples. All people are same, but those who are passionate and have burning desire to apply success principles are becoming more and more success in life. There is no…

  • 11 Habits of Financial Success

        Everybody is having financial problems or not having enough money to enjoy. There are lots of miss understanding behind the successful financial life. those are having regular income or salary do not think much about the finances, but remember in life your income will not remain constant, and the inflation will eat your…

  • What Defines You? – Your Habits

    Have you ever imagined, what defines you, in your life? The habits are the hidden force which accelerates your life. Your repetitions of thoughts create habits. In your life if you observe carefully, your habits shapes your life. The results are not visible in short term; it’s clearly visible in long term. Let’s see the…

  • Biggest Enemy of your success

    Who is the biggest enemy of your success? If you are regular readers of success letter, you might know that your thinking changes everything, from losing to winning and setbacks to victory. Everything is depending upon your thinking; your thinking creates your thoughts. And finally negative thoughts are the biggest enemy of success. Everybody has…

  • 8 Steps to Overcome Problems

    You can’t imagine life without problems, setbacks, difficulties, number of things you are facing every day. It’s not easy to deal with every problem. There need to be few skills you must apply to overcome the problems. As you grow and achieve meaningful success in life, you have lot of responsibilities, lot of decision making…

  • WARREN BUFFETT WISDOM – 1958 LETTER (REVIEW)

      Buffett starts his 1958 letter by writing his friends view on American people. “The Mercurial temperament” The behaviour of American Investor which affect the market. “I think this summarizes the change in Psychology dominating the stock market in 1958 at both the amateur and professional levels. During the past year almost any reason has…

  • Persistence

    “Persistence is your ability to persist in the face of tough times and failures, is the measure of your self- beliefs and your burning desire to succeed” Persistence is the DNA of Success, The most important strength and asset you can capitalize on. The important quality, which separates successful people from failure, no matter of…

  • Warren Buffett Wisdom – 1957 Letter (Review)

      As Buffett starts this letter by his last years view on market that it is priced above the intrinsic value. With this view there is a possibility of decline in all securities both undervalued and overvalued. If market become cheap or undervalued Buffett going to employ all his capital or perhaps some borrowed money…

  • Mental Blocks – Lack of Necessary Education

      Lack of Necessary Education: Formal education is needed to understand the basic things in life. If you know the numeric and basic math calculation and in language the basic alphabet and be able to read, write and speak, you are eligible to become successful. Again I say not necessary, in my life I know…

  • Mental Blocks – Accept or refuse to Help

    Accepting and refusing help is a mental block, an it’s a develop in mind from childhood days, in pre-primary school “sharing” is a value teaches in school, but in real life, there are number of reasons we accept or refuse to help others. The ego trap plays an important role in help factor, it’s like…

  • Mental Blocks – Self Doubts

    Today is a great day, and I am writing on a subject which is close to my heart. Mental Blocks The definition of mental blocks as per Wikipedia “A mental block is either a repression of painful thoughts or an inability to continue a train of thought” Becoming successful is more about your belief system,…

  • Preparation

      All your effective performance comes from the preparation you do before doing task. Highly successful and professional people dedicate more time on preparation compare to normal average people. If you are prepared in advance, more opportunities will come to you, because only prepared person can see opportunities and know the advantages in advance, blind…