‘Try Before You Buy’, If at All Possible

The worst investment I have ever made in Thailand was buying land. I had the idea of building a house for my parents on a block in Cha-am, Phetchaburi province, at the southern end of the Kingdom’s central region.   Don’t buy a home unless you really want to live there  After I acquired the land, my parents lived in the area for a few months on my suggestion because I thought it would…

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Hard Lesson About Compounding – Could Have Been Better with Coke

Prelude As an excited 17-year-old who had saved up a little more than US$2,000, I wanted to buy some stock. I held small amounts of two other stocks at the time, so I purchased Coca-Cola shares with the money I had saved.   Ignorance is not bliss when missing big future interest  I don’t know what I was thinking when I sold the Coke shares around six months later, ignorant…

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