Arpit Ranka

Children like stories and so do investors. The latest story, which has captured the imagination of investor community, is, ‘ a stable govern...

What is Creative Destruction? And what has creative destruction got to do with investing? As the name suggests, Creative Destruction is a ...

As an investor, each one of us is trying to buy low and sell high. In the process, we, more or less, have the same set of information to hel...

Taking cue from the saying that ' when you're not near the girl you love, you fall in love with the girl who is near you ,' I wo...

(Following is a transcript of a mail, which I had written sometime back, to a fellow value investor cum colleague of mine on the scope of Gr...

I am going to use this post to discuss a key lesson from a recent experience involving the whole process of trying to understand things arou...

To be Skillful is to be able to accomplish a given task, directed towards seeking an intended result, with comfort and in the least possible...

“ Wat are you really living for - is it money, fame, helping others, power .. or wat ?” A friend of mine had asked me this important questio...

“Life can only be understood backwards—but it must be lived forwards” —Soren Kierkegaard. Just as a kid starts to lose interest when thi...

“We are not so sensible of the greatest health as of the least sickness”— Ben Franklin (Read profit for health and loss for sickness) People...

Somebody once said, “ The moment I leave something on luck. It runs away .” One thing that has always fascinated me is the way some people o...

“Our ideas are so simple that people keep asking us for mysteries when all we have are the most elementary ideas”—Munger While watching Meme...

It is fairly easy for Jonathan, a 5-year-old kid taking his tennis lessons every weekend to improve than it is for Roger Federer. I think th...

I believe that the propensity to learn new things decreases as a man ages (ie) a 1 year old kid learns a lot more in a day as compared to a ...

(This is a response to a question asked by Shai to me and Bill of NoDoodahs . You can read Bill's reply from here ) Shai’s Question: Wh...

Perception is our understanding of reality & we understand reality by relating cause & effect. When what we perceive is in line with...

"There is lots of noise that comes with information and one needs to train himself to separate noise from information" -- Naseem T...

"Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are working on"-Edison. In the last chapter of Security An...