Some truths are too good to say only once. This week, David re-blasts five timelessly powerful ideas from the past—about identity, investing, serenity, frameworks, and questioning—and brings them together in a fresh 2026 mix. One quietly powerful idea runs underneath: What you do, repeatedly, becomes who you are.Along the way: A single line that might rewire how you think about your own habits (and your portfolio) A Silicon Valley inversion that flips investing on its head Shakespeare, serenely out-investing most of Wall Street Why Warren Buffett shouldn’t have bought Amazon—and why that’s good news And a modern upgrade to “question everything” for the age we’re actually living in Companies mentioned: AMZN, CMG, ISRG, MELI, NFLX, NVDA, SHOP, TSLAHost: David GardnerProducer: Bart Shannon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blast From The Past, Vol. 12: ABB

Rule Breaker Investing

# Full Transcript

**Podcast:** Rule Breaker Investing

## Participants

- **David Gardner** (The Motley Fool)

## Transcript

I try never to say never, but I'm nearly, nearly there with a few things. One is running for public office. I'm more drawn to the private sector where the vast majority of us work every day. I see immense value in what I call private service. Serving others through the private sector, often finding it more enjoyable and rewarding than traditional public service. Another never for me is repeating a Rule Breaker Investing podcast.

We've delivered a new podcast every week since July of 2015. That's 550 plus weeks in a row now, without a skip or a repeat. Yet, continuously introducing new content can lead to neglecting essential timeless truths. And that's why a couple of times a year, I revisit and highlight key lessons in our Blast From The Past series, ensuring both new and longtime listeners catch important things.

takeaways, whether they're hearing them for the first time or as a reminder from years ago. Which brings us to this week, Blast From The Past, Vol. 12, only on this week's Rule Breaker Investing. It's the Rule Breaker Investing podcast with Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner.

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing. A delight to have you join me. Happy April Fool's Day. Let me be maybe not the first to say that to you, but we're recording the day before April Fool's Day. But this podcast comes out noon Eastern, typically on Wednesdays.

Wednesdays, and that means it's April Fool's Day today, our national holiday. I hope you make a foolish day of it. I'm really delighted to be bringing you the 12th in our episodic series, Blast From The Past. That means I've done 11 of these in the past, and here's how it works. I basically think about what were some important points that I made three years ago or 10 years ago, and I'm pretty sure nobody remembers what I said 10 years ago.

And yet some of these points I think are very important, often pertinent here in 2026. So I like to bring back those points, which I've done 11 times before. Each of these episodes, I bring back five points from the past, a motley mix of frameworks or stories drawn from different periods, all brought to you here, in this case, in April of 2026. Because darn it, I think these things matter, and I hope you'll enjoy this week's episode. A couple of bookkeeping items before we start.

Let me just mention that if you haven't already, I hope you'll subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or Google Play. There are a lot of podcasts that say this every week. I don't really, because it gets boring, I think. But it is worth mentioning from time to time, we have 919 stellar reviews on Apple Podcasts. I'd love to see us crack 1,000 here in 2026. You can help us by leaving a review.

Throw me some stars. Let us know how we're doing. I read every comment. You can also follow us on Twitter at atRBIPodcast. You can also follow me on Tw...

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Blast From The Past, Vol. 12: ABB

Transcript

Built for investment professionals

Every day you wait, your competitors are findingedge in conversations you're not hearing.

Every day you wait, your competitors are finding
edge in conversations you're not hearing.