From the Presidential Medal
of Freedom presentation

Warren E. Buffett : as a world-known investor and philanthropist, Warren E. Buffett business acumen is matched only by his dedication to improve the lives of others. He is the co/founder of the Giving Pledge, an
organization that encourages wealthy Americans to donate at least 50percent of their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Warren Buffett’s example of Generosity and Compassion has shown us the power of one individual’s determination in inspiring countless women and men to help make our world a brighter place.

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Ben Graham , first part

Be like Buffett

I was born september 15th 1976, 6 days later Ben Graham died, age 82. Graham still is, as he was, modern and old-fashioned at the same time. He reminds me of an italian quote :”Torniamo al passato, sarà un progresso”! that is “Let’s go back to the past, it will be a progress”!  Especially when the markets are down I find comforting , and above all useful! to read Graham principles again. And I remind myself to read again for the onethousandfivehundred-or so time, chapter 8 and 20 of the “Intelligent Investor”. Before Graham buying stocks was something without a true philosophy. The principles of a good investment were undiscovered. Graham taught us how this game should be played to be profitable. Then, came Buffett as his best student of all, And with him we find today this game expanded and refined. But the initial spark is a Graham’s spark that showed the path to many.,

So much better than I can write, let’s take delight of Graham’s approach through the words of Warren Buffett in 1976 :

“In an area where much look foolish within weeks or months after publications, Ben’s principles have remained sound-their value often enhanced and better understood in the wake of financial storms that demolished flimsier intellectual structures”

This was from the “Financial Analysts Journal” of October 1976, but for me it could have been written without changing a word today, 43 years later, almost 44. My entire Life-time.

(to be continued)

Ben Graham, second part

Be like Buffett

Many investors are acting on the stock market basing their decisions upon looking or thinking about what the others will do. And so it goes the same old story. “Let’s sell before they sell” they say.. Mr. Market is repeating himself, as the human nature always does historically, being what it is. Driven too much by emotions unequestionably. Ben Graham would again remind us of the “firmness of character” needed to act in one’s belief. You dont need tons of intelligence to have a temperament. But if you don’t have the right temperament, and you act upon what other people do. Well, at least you’re not going to achieve good results in the investment world.
As Ben Graham would tell you today once again : “You are not right because 1000 people or more agree with you, and you are not right or wrong because 1000 people or more disagree with you”.

To be driven by fear and not by rationality, is not a good idea, unequivocally. As you may read on the news this first quarter has been the worst in history for the DOW.
20 per cent down
It was 25 percent down in 2008, the year in which we remember the crisis was much more dangerous.
In 2008 a housing bubble was hurting for real the economy risking to jeopardize the most important assets of families: their homes.
In fact it did, and most people lost their houses. Foreclosures were everywhere. Assets underlying paper were worth ..paper. 2008 was pretty scary.
Now the span of time and the economical-business reasons underlying the downfall of stocks are different.
The virus will not change in the future the wonderful business that is the one you want to own today at a discounted price.

I’m not saying this virus is not nasty and dangerous. Not at all. It is as dangerous as others we have been facing and defeated centuries ago.
Mr. Market, as usual in history turned his mood into panic and started to sell . He’s isolated at home, he is depressed and paranoid. Thus completely forgetting the real “intrinsic value” and the great economics of some businesses he’s ready to serve us at discounted prices.
Now’s the time to take advantage again of Mr. Market. .As long as you have already in mind what to buy. And you can evaluate the business you want to own. Let him serve you.

I dont time the market and I dont make forecasts. Nobody can. And I don’t even feel like Buffett in 1974 like an “oversexed guy in a whorehouse” like Buffett is quoted said in “The making of an American Capitalist”. He was buying everyday like hell.  But I know for sure that the “American Tailwind” (as Buffett calls it) will be strong and consistent in the future and good businesses will be booming in America after this pandemic  and over the long term. Never doubt America, never bet against this country and the generosity of its people and the good hard-workers that came here from everywhere. They will not sit around.

Ferrari Index

USA

Andiamo fuori tema se parliamo di Cars come investimento? Cosa direbbe Buffett?

Direbbe che non producendo denaro la tua Ferrari o McLaren non è un investimento in senso tecnico stretto ma una speculazione. Cioè un oggetto, come una tela d’autore, in cui tu paghi un prezzo per un valore difficilmente calcolabile e speri che un altro un domani si emozioni piu’ di te pagando un prezzo ancora piu’ alto e cosi’ via. Però negli anni 70 a Buffett capito’ un’occasione di un investimento correlato ad una collezione di vetture che ammise lui stesso erano vendute per 1 o 2 milioni e 10 anni dopo valevano piu’ di 10 milioni. Quindi parliamone, direbbe Jay Leno. e da appassionato di Ferrari non posso che “tradire” per un secondo Buffett e dire che evidentemente per storia personale il suo cuore non batte per la Ferrari come il mio batte rosso dalla culla.

Intendiamoci Buffett dice che la “quintessenza” dell’essere americano è nella cura e passione per l’auto e nel macinare miglia coast to coast! Ed è vero! La mia Cadillac come quella di Buffett ha un motore piu’ grosso della mia Ferrari e la usi tutti i giorni e ci viaggi quanto ti pare (a 1,99 dollari a gallone!). Sono 0,50 centesimi di Euro a litro, o forse meno. 1 gallone è 3.875 litri.

Ma allora perchè una Ferrari non solo non è una vettura normale ma ti fa battere il cuore (anche volendo con soli 1991cc) dalla nascita e poi per sempre e perchè se vuoi venderla ti offrono di solito piu’ di cio’ che l’hai pagata anni indietro? E perchè esistono aste milionarie soprattutto in USA e perchè esiste un “Ferrari Index”? Che come il DOW JONES, fluttuazioni ne ha, ma alla fine tende sempre a crescere, crescere ?

Perchè solo Ferrari ha 3 caratteristiche per le quali dovreste comprare un oggetto del genere (in realtà anche pochissimi altri brand ma per me in misura minore..)

1. Un BRAND unico nel Suo Prestigio ed inimitabile irraggiungibile

2. Una soddisfazione ed esperienza di guida inimitabili

3. Pochi esemplari prodotti in genere per ogni modello (con grosse differenze ovviamente da un modello all’altro  che influiscono sul  prezzo)

Con queste tre caratteristiche comprare una Ferrari vintage è sempre un buon acquisto. Vi garantite un’esperienza ed un’emozione inimitabili, vi garantite un valore che proporzionalmente al numero di esemplari del vostro modello crescerà nel futuro a lungo termine. Sempre. Portatevi solo un buon meccanico esperto Ferrari per non comprarvi “accrocchi” o schifezze tenute male.

Un ultimo dato relativo al punto due. Qui in USA le usano poco. Le conservano in modo straordinario. Ho avuto modo pochi giorni fa grazie a John Levy (Ferrari official di Fort-Lauderdale) di vedere la F40 comprata nuova li’ dal compianto Paul Allen co-founder di Microsoft. Il secondo proprietario l’ha appena venduta grazie a John (con cui parli per ore di Ferrari). E’ nuova. Sembra mai usata e in effetti ha circa 10.000 km. Ed è pure tanto. A Miami il mio amico Jordi Ricart ha appena venduto una F50 con 212 miglia!! Adesso ne ha un’altra bellissima per “soli” 2.600.000 USD con 12.000 km. La vedi. Nuova.

Io non sono molto d’accordo. Per me vanno usate. Enzo Ferrari se non sbaglio se ne lamentava un po’ di questo minore uso dei nostri primi compratori e clienti (da sempre) gli Stati Uniti. Quasi 3000 vetture su 9.000 e changes del 2018 sono vendute in America! Quanto tutta l’area EMEA ..(E nel 2017 in Italia vendute solo 350 mi pare. Un decimo quasi!). E qui aspettano in media 2 anni!

Vanno usate, almeno ogni tanto. Non ho dubbi. Qualsiasi modello. Non c’è prezzo per le emozioni di un V8 cilindri Ferrari alle spalle nel misto delle curve della costiera di Maratea in una bella giornata di Maggio. Il Ferrari Index per una volta non la prenderà cosi’ male.

Follow the Value of the Company nor Mr. Market

Education

Stocks are down and that’s good news. What do I buy if I am a long term Value Investor ? And when?

Since we agree upon the fact that is impossible to time the market, the most important of the two questions is the first. If you have the capability of finding a real super wonderful business, or just a wonderful one, you are more than half a way to success. If the price makes sense you are easily buying something that will allow you to be happy in the next 5 or 10 or more years. Why? Because you learnt from before how to reach the figure in your own mind of the “intrinsic value” of that particular company. It’s a company you already know and you are following and you like so much to own. You’ re discounting at the appropriate interest rate the flows of positive cash flows that this particular business you know it generates (eventually from here to judgment day). You say to yourself : “I will buy this SuperFunMegaBusiness at this price because…” And make sure you have a pretty much articulate reasoning behind this answer. An answer you will base upon facts and facts that are valuable.

If the price of the stock goes down below your “intrinsic value” you don’t care about the market as a whole and the fluctuations of the entire SP 500 or you read the newspapers headlines or whatever. You don’t care if immediately the price keeps going down. You have a chance to buy more. You don’t let Mr. Market to instruct you. You let Mr. Market to serve you. You use him until he will be sober again and will use your same judgment in the future about that particular business you are able to understand before he does.

So, if you know what stock (business) to buy, you don’t care about the entire DOW and predict what will be tomorrow or in ten days or ten months either. You follow and look at the business you want to buy and the price is selling today compared to your intrinsic value. To your own ability to evaluate.

And that figure and reasoning is yours and only yours. That’s why you don’t let Mr. Market tell you what to do. Never. That’s why is never gambling. The opposite : it’s a fantastic game to play.

Have fun!

Speaking of Ben Franklin today

Benjamin Franklin

I read somewhere that the word “self-evident” in the “Declaration of Independence” was a Ben Franklin’s substitution for a more articulated and complex number of words by Thomas Jefferson regarding Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. If you take a look at the manuscript of the Declaration you’ll find this correction hand-written above. Albeit many could say it was a minor contribution or so, I always considered the expression “self-evident” so brief and that powerful, that told me a lot about Benjamin Franklin himself.

I always said in this website that words from Warren Buffett are so powerful and full of wisdom that can teach by themselves a lot. So simple and clear, they are like his wisdom and humanity. Most of this “Spirit” is an American spirit, or the best part of the American Spirit. It gushed out from Franklin and it is present in people like Buffett and Munger today. Some words of Wisdom and the use of “Bon Mots” travelled through the centuries comfortably. They’re unbiased and they still work today. Buffett and Franklin have in common the same wonder: the facts about them are true.

The more you know about them and their lives the more you find surprising the adventure you get in. Both men of sagacity, both cunning negotiators, both always trying to avoid disputes and battles, but ready and strong if the fight would call. Franklin changed the history of this Country and Buffett changed the way we can approach and look at the entire world of Business, Money, Investment and Philantropy. Both of them teach us today timeless lessons about Honesty, Integrity, Rationality. Timeless examples of hard-working and commitment and the power of investing in Education, learning continuosly. And continuosly investing in yourself to acquire many sides of Wisdom in as many fields you feel you want to know.

And to complete (if ever possible) the picture, we must note how beloved and esteemed was Franklin’s character and reputation in America as well as in Europe. “A friend to human kind” to quote John Adams. His humour is characteristically American and I see how good can be to take example from the Buffett modern good humour, humbleness and good sense. Useful and needed more than ever in a ever-changing and “always on the move” world as the one we are living today.

“Il mondo non appartiene ai pessimisti..”

Be like Buffett

Non c’è nulla di sbagliato nel pensare in grande e nel credere in se’ stessi. Ho imparato cosi’ tanto da Buffett e ho lasciato che molti suoi consigli siano parte di me, che non ricordo nemmeno piu’ dove e quando ho sentito da lui per la prima volta frasi che sono diventate parte della mia vita quotidiana. Vi auguro per Natale che diventino parte anche della vostra vita. Ogni giorno. Nessuno escluso. Devono essere come una memoria muscolare, un riflesso. Essere onesti ed etici per esempio. Non puo’ essere un’abitudine se lo siete ad intermittenza. Non puo’ essere una cosa saltuaria. Dovete proprio ESSERE onesti ed etici per essere felici, non sembrarlo e basta.

Dovete poi pensare che sia possibile raggiungere cio’ che volete nella vita. E dovete per questo avere un piano. Il piu’ dettagliato e preciso possibile. Siate sicuri di sapere cio’ che fate ma siate anche sicuri di sapere che potete farlo. Un idiota con un buon piano puo’ sicuramente sconfiggere un genio senza un piano. Se fallite nel prepararvi, preparatevi a fallire. Non è questione di IQ, ma piuttosto di essere freddi e lucidi calcolatori. E’ piu’ disciplina e sudore che genio. E’ rinforzarsi invece di lasciarsi abbattere. E’ non arrendersi e restare concentrati sull’obiettivo. In questo siate implacabili. Siate ispirati da gente che ha fatto bene, molto meglio di voi. Imparate incessantemente dai migliori. Cercate di essere come loro, di acquisire le qualità che hanno e che vi piacciono di piu’. Siate come coloro che volete essere. Provateci. Potete farlo. E anche se siete nati nel posto sbagliato per voi, non arrendetevi: traslocate. Andate dove è l’avventura. Non lamentatevi, non serve a niente. Non fate le vittime. Lottate!

Buon Natale e Buone Feste a tutti,

Marco Turco 

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Ben Graham , first part

Be like Buffett

I was born september 15th 1976, 6 days later Ben Graham died, age 82. Graham still is, as he was, modern and old-fashioned at the same time. He reminds me of an italian quote :”Torniamo al passato, sarà un progresso”! that is “Let’s go back to the past, it will be a progress”!  Especially when the markets are down I find comforting , and above all useful! to read Graham principles again. And I remind myself to read again for the onethousandfivehundred-or so time, chapter 8 and 20 of the “Intelligent Investor”. Before Graham buying stocks was something without a true philosophy. The principles of a good investment were undiscovered. Graham taught us how this game should be played to be profitable. Then, came Buffett as his best student of all, And with him we find today this game expanded and refined. But the initial spark is a Graham’s spark that showed the path to many.,

So much better than I can write, let’s take delight of Graham’s approach through the words of Warren Buffett in 1976 :

“In an area where much look foolish within weeks or months after publications, Ben’s principles have remained sound-their value often enhanced and better understood in the wake of financial storms that demolished flimsier intellectual structures”

This was from the “Financial Analysts Journal” of October 1976, but for me it could have been written without changing a word today, 43 years later, almost 44. My entire Life-time.

(to be continued)

Ben Graham, second part

Be like Buffett

Many investors are acting on the stock market basing their decisions upon looking or thinking about what the others will do. And so it goes the same old story. “Let’s sell before they sell” they say.. Mr. Market is repeating himself, as the human nature always does historically, being what it is. Driven too much by emotions unequestionably. Ben Graham would again remind us of the “firmness of character” needed to act in one’s belief. You dont need tons of intelligence to have a temperament. But if you don’t have the right temperament, and you act upon what other people do. Well, at least you’re not going to achieve good results in the investment world.
As Ben Graham would tell you today once again : “You are not right because 1000 people or more agree with you, and you are not right or wrong because 1000 people or more disagree with you”.

To be driven by fear and not by rationality, is not a good idea, unequivocally. As you may read on the news this first quarter has been the worst in history for the DOW.
20 per cent down
It was 25 percent down in 2008, the year in which we remember the crisis was much more dangerous.
In 2008 a housing bubble was hurting for real the economy risking to jeopardize the most important assets of families: their homes.
In fact it did, and most people lost their houses. Foreclosures were everywhere. Assets underlying paper were worth ..paper. 2008 was pretty scary.
Now the span of time and the economical-business reasons underlying the downfall of stocks are different.
The virus will not change in the future the wonderful business that is the one you want to own today at a discounted price.

I’m not saying this virus is not nasty and dangerous. Not at all. It is as dangerous as others we have been facing and defeated centuries ago.
Mr. Market, as usual in history turned his mood into panic and started to sell . He’s isolated at home, he is depressed and paranoid. Thus completely forgetting the real “intrinsic value” and the great economics of some businesses he’s ready to serve us at discounted prices.
Now’s the time to take advantage again of Mr. Market. .As long as you have already in mind what to buy. And you can evaluate the business you want to own. Let him serve you.

I dont time the market and I dont make forecasts. Nobody can. And I don’t even feel like Buffett in 1974 like an “oversexed guy in a whorehouse” like Buffett is quoted said in “The making of an American Capitalist”. He was buying everyday like hell.  But I know for sure that the “American Tailwind” (as Buffett calls it) will be strong and consistent in the future and good businesses will be booming in America after this pandemic  and over the long term. Never doubt America, never bet against this country and the generosity of its people and the good hard-workers that came here from everywhere. They will not sit around.

Ferrari Index

USA

Andiamo fuori tema se parliamo di Cars come investimento? Cosa direbbe Buffett?

Direbbe che non producendo denaro la tua Ferrari o McLaren non è un investimento in senso tecnico stretto ma una speculazione. Cioè un oggetto, come una tela d’autore, in cui tu paghi un prezzo per un valore difficilmente calcolabile e speri che un altro un domani si emozioni piu’ di te pagando un prezzo ancora piu’ alto e cosi’ via. Però negli anni 70 a Buffett capito’ un’occasione di un investimento correlato ad una collezione di vetture che ammise lui stesso erano vendute per 1 o 2 milioni e 10 anni dopo valevano piu’ di 10 milioni. Quindi parliamone, direbbe Jay Leno. e da appassionato di Ferrari non posso che “tradire” per un secondo Buffett e dire che evidentemente per storia personale il suo cuore non batte per la Ferrari come il mio batte rosso dalla culla.

Intendiamoci Buffett dice che la “quintessenza” dell’essere americano è nella cura e passione per l’auto e nel macinare miglia coast to coast! Ed è vero! La mia Cadillac come quella di Buffett ha un motore piu’ grosso della mia Ferrari e la usi tutti i giorni e ci viaggi quanto ti pare (a 1,99 dollari a gallone!). Sono 0,50 centesimi di Euro a litro, o forse meno. 1 gallone è 3.875 litri.

Ma allora perchè una Ferrari non solo non è una vettura normale ma ti fa battere il cuore (anche volendo con soli 1991cc) dalla nascita e poi per sempre e perchè se vuoi venderla ti offrono di solito piu’ di cio’ che l’hai pagata anni indietro? E perchè esistono aste milionarie soprattutto in USA e perchè esiste un “Ferrari Index”? Che come il DOW JONES, fluttuazioni ne ha, ma alla fine tende sempre a crescere, crescere ?

Perchè solo Ferrari ha 3 caratteristiche per le quali dovreste comprare un oggetto del genere (in realtà anche pochissimi altri brand ma per me in misura minore..)

1. Un BRAND unico nel Suo Prestigio ed inimitabile irraggiungibile

2. Una soddisfazione ed esperienza di guida inimitabili

3. Pochi esemplari prodotti in genere per ogni modello (con grosse differenze ovviamente da un modello all’altro  che influiscono sul  prezzo)

Con queste tre caratteristiche comprare una Ferrari vintage è sempre un buon acquisto. Vi garantite un’esperienza ed un’emozione inimitabili, vi garantite un valore che proporzionalmente al numero di esemplari del vostro modello crescerà nel futuro a lungo termine. Sempre. Portatevi solo un buon meccanico esperto Ferrari per non comprarvi “accrocchi” o schifezze tenute male.

Un ultimo dato relativo al punto due. Qui in USA le usano poco. Le conservano in modo straordinario. Ho avuto modo pochi giorni fa grazie a John Levy (Ferrari official di Fort-Lauderdale) di vedere la F40 comprata nuova li’ dal compianto Paul Allen co-founder di Microsoft. Il secondo proprietario l’ha appena venduta grazie a John (con cui parli per ore di Ferrari). E’ nuova. Sembra mai usata e in effetti ha circa 10.000 km. Ed è pure tanto. A Miami il mio amico Jordi Ricart ha appena venduto una F50 con 212 miglia!! Adesso ne ha un’altra bellissima per “soli” 2.600.000 USD con 12.000 km. La vedi. Nuova.

Io non sono molto d’accordo. Per me vanno usate. Enzo Ferrari se non sbaglio se ne lamentava un po’ di questo minore uso dei nostri primi compratori e clienti (da sempre) gli Stati Uniti. Quasi 3000 vetture su 9.000 e changes del 2018 sono vendute in America! Quanto tutta l’area EMEA ..(E nel 2017 in Italia vendute solo 350 mi pare. Un decimo quasi!). E qui aspettano in media 2 anni!

Vanno usate, almeno ogni tanto. Non ho dubbi. Qualsiasi modello. Non c’è prezzo per le emozioni di un V8 cilindri Ferrari alle spalle nel misto delle curve della costiera di Maratea in una bella giornata di Maggio. Il Ferrari Index per una volta non la prenderà cosi’ male.

Follow the Value of the Company nor Mr. Market

Education

Stocks are down and that’s good news. What do I buy if I am a long term Value Investor ? And when?

Since we agree upon the fact that is impossible to time the market, the most important of the two questions is the first. If you have the capability of finding a real super wonderful business, or just a wonderful one, you are more than half a way to success. If the price makes sense you are easily buying something that will allow you to be happy in the next 5 or 10 or more years. Why? Because you learnt from before how to reach the figure in your own mind of the “intrinsic value” of that particular company. It’s a company you already know and you are following and you like so much to own. You’ re discounting at the appropriate interest rate the flows of positive cash flows that this particular business you know it generates (eventually from here to judgment day). You say to yourself : “I will buy this SuperFunMegaBusiness at this price because…” And make sure you have a pretty much articulate reasoning behind this answer. An answer you will base upon facts and facts that are valuable.

If the price of the stock goes down below your “intrinsic value” you don’t care about the market as a whole and the fluctuations of the entire SP 500 or you read the newspapers headlines or whatever. You don’t care if immediately the price keeps going down. You have a chance to buy more. You don’t let Mr. Market to instruct you. You let Mr. Market to serve you. You use him until he will be sober again and will use your same judgment in the future about that particular business you are able to understand before he does.

So, if you know what stock (business) to buy, you don’t care about the entire DOW and predict what will be tomorrow or in ten days or ten months either. You follow and look at the business you want to buy and the price is selling today compared to your intrinsic value. To your own ability to evaluate.

And that figure and reasoning is yours and only yours. That’s why you don’t let Mr. Market tell you what to do. Never. That’s why is never gambling. The opposite : it’s a fantastic game to play.

Have fun!

Speaking of Ben Franklin today

Benjamin Franklin

I read somewhere that the word “self-evident” in the “Declaration of Independence” was a Ben Franklin’s substitution for a more articulated and complex number of words by Thomas Jefferson regarding Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. If you take a look at the manuscript of the Declaration you’ll find this correction hand-written above. Albeit many could say it was a minor contribution or so, I always considered the expression “self-evident” so brief and that powerful, that told me a lot about Benjamin Franklin himself.

I always said in this website that words from Warren Buffett are so powerful and full of wisdom that can teach by themselves a lot. So simple and clear, they are like his wisdom and humanity. Most of this “Spirit” is an American spirit, or the best part of the American Spirit. It gushed out from Franklin and it is present in people like Buffett and Munger today. Some words of Wisdom and the use of “Bon Mots” travelled through the centuries comfortably. They’re unbiased and they still work today. Buffett and Franklin have in common the same wonder: the facts about them are true.

The more you know about them and their lives the more you find surprising the adventure you get in. Both men of sagacity, both cunning negotiators, both always trying to avoid disputes and battles, but ready and strong if the fight would call. Franklin changed the history of this Country and Buffett changed the way we can approach and look at the entire world of Business, Money, Investment and Philantropy. Both of them teach us today timeless lessons about Honesty, Integrity, Rationality. Timeless examples of hard-working and commitment and the power of investing in Education, learning continuosly. And continuosly investing in yourself to acquire many sides of Wisdom in as many fields you feel you want to know.

And to complete (if ever possible) the picture, we must note how beloved and esteemed was Franklin’s character and reputation in America as well as in Europe. “A friend to human kind” to quote John Adams. His humour is characteristically American and I see how good can be to take example from the Buffett modern good humour, humbleness and good sense. Useful and needed more than ever in a ever-changing and “always on the move” world as the one we are living today.

“Il mondo non appartiene ai pessimisti..”

Be like Buffett

Non c’è nulla di sbagliato nel pensare in grande e nel credere in se’ stessi. Ho imparato cosi’ tanto da Buffett e ho lasciato che molti suoi consigli siano parte di me, che non ricordo nemmeno piu’ dove e quando ho sentito da lui per la prima volta frasi che sono diventate parte della mia vita quotidiana. Vi auguro per Natale che diventino parte anche della vostra vita. Ogni giorno. Nessuno escluso. Devono essere come una memoria muscolare, un riflesso. Essere onesti ed etici per esempio. Non puo’ essere un’abitudine se lo siete ad intermittenza. Non puo’ essere una cosa saltuaria. Dovete proprio ESSERE onesti ed etici per essere felici, non sembrarlo e basta.

Dovete poi pensare che sia possibile raggiungere cio’ che volete nella vita. E dovete per questo avere un piano. Il piu’ dettagliato e preciso possibile. Siate sicuri di sapere cio’ che fate ma siate anche sicuri di sapere che potete farlo. Un idiota con un buon piano puo’ sicuramente sconfiggere un genio senza un piano. Se fallite nel prepararvi, preparatevi a fallire. Non è questione di IQ, ma piuttosto di essere freddi e lucidi calcolatori. E’ piu’ disciplina e sudore che genio. E’ rinforzarsi invece di lasciarsi abbattere. E’ non arrendersi e restare concentrati sull’obiettivo. In questo siate implacabili. Siate ispirati da gente che ha fatto bene, molto meglio di voi. Imparate incessantemente dai migliori. Cercate di essere come loro, di acquisire le qualità che hanno e che vi piacciono di piu’. Siate come coloro che volete essere. Provateci. Potete farlo. E anche se siete nati nel posto sbagliato per voi, non arrendetevi: traslocate. Andate dove è l’avventura. Non lamentatevi, non serve a niente. Non fate le vittime. Lottate!

Buon Natale e Buone Feste a tutti,

Marco Turco