You are you own worst enemy. Nobody shoots you in the foot better than you do.
Motivational BS. I spent yesterday chasing suppliers for stuff. I want to pay them real money. Apparently it doesn’t work that way any longer.
Customers need to beg for service.
Your customers do make a difference. Please pay them some attention. They include me.
Enough.
Cramer’s end-of-quarter strategy. June 30 approaches. Mutual funds will reveal their holdings on that date to the fund holders. For the managers to look good, they will need to hold the hottest stocks — the ones with the biggest gains in the quarter. Since most fund managers didn’t own these stocks, they will need to buy them in the next few days. Cramer’s five hot stocks are Akamai, Sandisk, MetroPCS, Salesforce.com and Pioneer Natural Resources.
My big pile of unread newspapers and magazines. Finally the pile got to me. I spent hours last night reading the stuff. Conclusion: Cancel the new Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal. Cancel the new Bloomberg Business Week. Both are writing rapid “fill the space” stories. Little research. Little thought. Little creativity. I didn’t clip a single story or circle an interesting fact. Just drivel and more drivel. I don’t need the guilt, dust and mess which the unread pile produces.
My best news strategy is the Economist, the New York Times, Rolling Stone, the New Yorker and some of the online blogs, many of which I’ve listed in the left-hand column.
In short, don’t feel guilty if you cancel print subscriptions.
Much faster: Glance at headlines online.
Wimbledon is on. ESPN 2 has the main gig. But every night The Tennis Channel has it repeated from 7 PM to 3:00 AM. They’re not part of this grid because their P.R. is hopeless. This chart from Tennis Warehouse is now wildly wrong, since ESPN2 is now showing World Cup soccer in the morning.
This is a couple of months old. But still disturbing. You and I paid for this.
Learning big people’s words.
A group of kindergartners were trying very hard to become accustomed to the first grade. The biggest hurdle they faced was that the teacher insisted on NO baby talk!
You need to use ‘Big People’ words,’ she was always reminding them.
She asked John what he had done over the weekend? ‘I went to visit my Nana’.
No, you went to visit your GRANDMOTHER. Use ‘Big People’ words!’ She then asked Mitchell what he had done ‘I took a ride on a choo-choo’.
She said. ‘No, you took a ride on a TRAIN. You must remember to use ‘Big People’ words’.
She then asked little Alex what he had done?
‘I read a book’ he replied.
That’s WONDERFUL!’ the teacher said.
‘What book did you read?’
Alex thought real hard about it, then puffed out his chest with great pride, and said, ‘Winnie the SHIT’
Harry Newton,who is still being beaten by better players. In tennis, every point is a new beginning. I start each point with renewed optimism. That’s the way I think of investing. The key is to limit your position sizes so you won’t be hurt by a cockroach event, like what happened to Ziopharm when the FDA rejected its request for a quick move-along.
Harry
Thanks for listing the Wimbledon schedule.
Philip
The schedule is all wrong. There’s no way to watch today’s matches until tonight.
Harry, Please move the calendar on the right to the top above the “Indexes/Stocks We Like”, since the browser refresh button only refresh the calendar, we need to click on today's date on the calendar to get the browser to display today's column. Thanks.
– RY
I don't quite understand. Let me play around a bit.
Business Week has never been good. WSJ has really gone downhill since Rupert bought it. Articles are more general stories, and appeal to a mainstream consumer market. They don't appeal to professionals. The website was redesigned, and its a joke. Before you could go to a page and see all the articles in the papers, and quickly pick the ones read. You can't do that anymore, they mixed up a lot of the feature articles, so it's hard to differentiate them from the daily news space fillers.
Since print went down the tubes, magazine and newspaper owners have cut their editorial costs. Their quality has plummeted. Sad. I worked the summer between business school years at Business Week. I have fond memories.