of his wealth to some foundations the Templeton foundations which fund the world's largest cash prize so the Templeton Foundation gives out the Templeton prize once a year and it always exceeds the Nobel Prize because he was after all an intensely competitive person and he wanted it to always U be the world's largest cash
and I was raised on a of BLTs but in my family we called them Buffet Lynch and templetons these are three of the greatest investors and their track records and they are remarkable I think one thing to highlight is that Warren Buffett has an
a risk tolerant investor um I had the great pleasure many many years ago of meeting the late great Sir John Templeton who I met him was in his 90s and he was still at that age an extremely aggressive investor now he had a couple billion dollars so that maybe is a factor as well but he he understood the risk so I think that that is one of
And interestingly, this is a proposal that is supported by the Templeton Foundation, which is a very religious foundation as you may know. Templeton supported research in various fields, but you had to tie it and try to make science and religion kind of fit comfortably in the same textbook. And there are no such restraints based on us.
So he defines this ability to have great success over a long period. Now Templeton lived in this gated community called Lyford Cay in the Bahamas, which was a fascinating place. He had decided early in his life he was going to save-- he saved half of the money that he made early in his career,
The market is still-- many companies have been just smashed by the Great Depression. And Templeton looks at the Wall Street Journal, and he tells me he figures out that there are 104 stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange that are all trading at less than $1 apiece.
We'll do it. But there are 37 of these companies that are bankrupt. And Templeton says yeah, I want those too. And so he buys these 104 stocks.
when I come speak to them want to know a little bit about my very famous great uncle Sir John Templeton who pioneered Global value investing now I know that a lot of you are younger and may not be very familiar with his career so I thought we would um hit some of the
remember what is a really easy way you could have outperformed Buffet Lynch or Templeton sitting at home in your pajamas eating potato chips well the way you could have done it is you would have simply added money
And I'm thinking actually, this is the key to Templeton. What I realized Templeton really embodies is this willingness to be lonely, this willingness to say, this is how I do things. This is a way to act that actually makes sense to me, is a really efficient exercise.
Now these two descriptions are fundamentally different. Anybody here know Brad Templeton? No? OK. He used to work here on the Google car project.
That's not going to cost you a nickel. I think that Brad Templeton picked you up on ClariNet as one of the first syndicated authors, and such.
Welcome to Authors at Google. I'm Brad Templeton. We're here today with Mez Naam, who has written a new book called Nexus, nothing to do with Google. Yet his talk is going to be about Google and your brain.
Hi, welcome, this is Green at Google. I'm Brad Templeton, and today we have Olver Kuttner from Edison2. This company was the company that won the X Prize for the most efficient car that was sponsored by Progressive Insurance.
Welcome. This is Authors at Google. I'm Brad Templeton from Google X. What we have today are two of the most respected writers of science fiction, particularly hard science fiction, I think, we have in the field, Gregory Benford and Larry Niven.
greatest stock picker of the 20th century um before he died he gave most of his wealth to some foundations the Templeton foundations which fund the world's largest cash prize so the Templeton Foundation gives out the Templeton prize once a year and it always exceeds the Nobel Prize because
At the time he was 85 years old. If you had invested in the Templeton growth fund, over 38 years he compounded a rate of about 15% a year. And as a result, your $10,000 would turn into $2 million.
Howard Marks said to me, most of the time, the world doesn't end. And this is something that Templeton figured out. So he figures actually the war is going to jump start all of these tiny companies that are still recovering from the Great Depression.
it's your attitude towards them, I had actually been working on gratitude for a year or so. I had been asked by the John Templeton Foundation, which is a big, wonderful, international foundation, to do a survey for them on gratitude. And I had done it.
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we don't have to worry about it. Graham, John Templeton. Those are my heroes.
he was after all an intensely competitive person and he wanted it to always U be the world's largest cash prize um lots of interesting people have won the Templeton prize and it's given out for progress in spirituality and religion now I like to start all my presentations with a few of his quotes um just to familiarize yourself with his
is going to make our return for years to come he was a buyer that day now my husband did a recent revision of the book The Templeton touch and when he was writing that book we went and interviewed a lot of famous money managers that knew my uncle and we interviewed one of his old employees um
And this is something that all of these guys have. And you see this very vividly with this extraordinary investment that Templeton made in 1939. So the world is kind of coming to an end, right?
so without further Ado ladies and Gentlemen let's all welcome Lauren Templeton today thanks for having me come speak today I'm very excited to join you here I run a registered investment advisory
So the willingness to be lonely-- back in, I'd say, the winter of 1998, I got this fantastic assignment to go interview Sir John Templeton. And as many of you know, Templeton was one of the greatest investors of the last century. At the time he was 85 years old.
And I had this quandary whether I should out him in this article as having this fake security, which of course I did mention in the article. And so Templeton is kind of this giant of this period, this 85-year-old who is really the pioneer of international investing.
He was the first great fund manager in America to venture abroad and say, why should I just be looking for bargains in the US? So the most memorable experience, strangely with Templeton, was not in fact anything that he said. It was watching him one morning when he was exercising.
But a lot of people weren't familiar in the professional community with WorldWide Telescope even in the academic education community because they thought it was just this outreach tool. and by NASA, and by the Templeton Foundation.
And when I got home to New York, I'm thinking about this. And I'm thinking actually, this is the key to Templeton. What I realized Templeton really embodies is this willingness to be lonely, this willingness to say, this is how I do things.
He's been quoted in various publications including the Wall Street Journal and Barron's. He has spoken to several CFA groups as well as Fidelity Management, Franklin Templeton, and the American Association of Individual Investors. He is, interestingly, an Ironman finisher and is active in open land preservation.
understanding of what it is that makes us human. And interestingly, this is a proposal that is supported by the Templeton Foundation, which is a very religious foundation as you may know. Templeton supported research in various fields, but you had to tie it and try to make science and religion kind of fit comfortably in the same textbook.
You will be able to post your questions in the chat window below the YouTube presentation. Dr. Lennox is emeritus professor of mathematics at Oxford University, an emeritus fellow in mathematics and philosophy of science at Green Templeton College, and an associate fellow of Said Business School, Oxford University.
So finally, to summarize in one sentence, "To obtain better results than the others," I would quote John Templeton.
that the odds of having a successful life in all of these different areas is increased. So the willingness to be lonely-- back in, I'd say, the winter of 1998, I got this fantastic assignment to go interview Sir John Templeton. And as many of you know, Templeton was one of the greatest investors of the last century.
I think part of "Thunderbolt", the Bond movie was filmed there. So this was a pretty sweet gig to go in the middle of winter, to go interview Templeton, this great guru at Lyford Cay. And I remember as I came up to his house, there's actually, as you walked along the porch of his house, an electronic dog starts barking.