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Mohnish Pabrai shares his investment principles and mental models that contributed to his success as a billionaire value investor.

Get Mohnish's 9 investment principles: https://clickhubspot.com/kwdo Episode 827: Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Mohnish Pabrai to break down the mental models that made him a billionaire value investor. — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (1:25) Mental models of the top 1% (3:38) The mistress is always hotter than the wife (6:37) Introduce Randomness in your life (10:47) Humans are poor at copying (20:13) Take a simple idea seriously (23:02) Be and inch wide and a mile deep (30:29) Never use Excel (35:03) Wait for fat pitches (39:38) the stock market is like a church with a casino (44:01) Paying $650,000 to have lunch with Warren Buffett (45:43) The cautionary tale of Rick Guerin (47:22) The inner score card (49:25) The future of Berkshire Hathaway (51:29) Mohnish’s best investment (1:02:39) The hardest question (1:06:16) How to beat the index (1:11:25) Mohnish's stock picks for 2026 (1:22:26) S&P 500 (1:24:57) life advice disguised as investing advice (1:29:32) Studying the greatest investors (1:37:51) if you remember nothing else, remember this — Links: Mohnish Part 1: This Guy Copy-Pasted Warren Buffett’s Strategy (And Became A Billionaire) Mohnish Part 2: Go…

People in this episode

Host: Shaan Puri

Guest: Mohnish Pabrai

Topics covered

• investment principles
• value investing
• mental models
• stock market
• financial advice

Keywords

• investment
• Mohnish Pabrai
• Warren Buffett
• value investing
• financial advice
• stock market
• mental models

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Berkshire Hathaway

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