Why do you think you did so poorly on your investments?
I would do everything emotionally. I didn't analyze anything.
In a sense, you were repeating the mistake of your early trading experience: getting involved in
something you knew nothing about and then losing money. Didn't any bells go off ? It almost sounds like
you had a self-destructive instinct in losing your money elsewhere.
Yes, absolutely. I probably lost more than half the money I made.
During this period when you were doing all these unwise things, didn't anybody try to grab you by
the shoulders and say, "Do you realize what you're doing?"
Yes, but any time someone on my staff did, I would fire them. At one time, I was employing sixty or seventy
people, hi addition to all my money-losing businesses, I had a huge nut to make to just support the payroll. Frankly,
a lot of the money I made just went down the drain.
Did these losses have any of the emotional impact of losses in the market? The reason I ask is that
you seem to talk about these investment losses very dispassionately.
Yes, it hurt to realize what a fool I had been, but I have learned not to be as attached to material things. I
accepted it as a life lesson. I learned I don't have to own a house in every beautiful place in the world; I can stay at a
hotel and walk on the beach or climb a trail there. Or, if I really feel like spoiling myself, I can charter a plane; I don't
have to own one.
Right, that certainly makes sense, but what I am getting at is that I suspect that if you had lost
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