4 Timeless Investment Principles From The Motley Fool Investment Guide

For years, the only book I recommended to friends or family members who said they were interested in learning more about investing was Peter Lynch's quintessential classic, One Up on Wall Street. Even though I had found no other book that could better explain investing with common sense and easy-to-understand language, I always wished a more modern book would come along with up-to-date information and examples. After all, it's been a long time since Mr. Lynch walked the malls looking for new investing ideas in the 1980s! Now, after all this time, it looks like Lynch's 1989 classic might finally have some real competition as the first book I would recommend to a new investor: the third edition of The Motley Fool Investment Guide.

Besides a few extremely helpful books along the way, I can say with near-certainty that everything I learned about investing can be somehow traced back to The Motley Fool, from its essential 13 Steps to Investing Foolishly series to the many helpful answers I got from Fools and community members on its many discussion boards. I was also a satisfied subscriber of the company's Stock Advisor newsletter service for a long time before I started writing articles for the company. Yet, for some reason, I never got around to reading the The Motley Fool Investment Guide until the third edition was recently released.

Whether you're an experienced investor or at the beginning of your investment journey, you could benefit by moving The Motley Fool Investment Guide to the top of your reading list. Image source: Getty Images.

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