For 100 Baggers, I originally had the idea that I would pepper the text with little vignettes on people whose stories shed some light on how to nab a 100 bagger. I love these kinds of stories, especially if not particularly well known. So I had nine of them written and more planned.
Then it occurred to me that, while I thought they were interesting, these stories were distractions to the main ideas of the book. They sometimes didn’t address the core ideas or were just redundant. And they seemed to interrupt the flow. So, I cut them.
Later, while working at Bonner & Partners, I cobbled these vignettes together in a 12-page report and called it -- to make it sound sexy -- “100-Baggers: The Lost Chapter.”
The "Lost Chapter" contained the following stories:
Felix Dennis: How to Get Rich (It’s not how you expect)
J.R. Simplot: Be Willing to Try Anything
Georges Doriot: How to Make 70,000%
Trammell Crow: Own Real Estate
Arthur Dewing: Forget the Fancy Math – Stick with Common Sense
John Laporte: Buy Right and Sit Tight
T. Rowe Price: Look for Out-of-favor Growth
Philip Carret: Be Patient
Benoît Mandelbrot: Forget About Average – Markets are Wild
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