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Stock markets are a theatre of constant buying and selling, but real wealth is often built in the quieter act of holding. There are stretches when the wisest move isn’t a trade – it’s conviction. Spend your energy on finding businesses with durable advantages, clean balance sheets, and steady cash flows, then let time do the compounding. Headlines will swing from panic to euphoria and back again; good companies won’t. You don’t need to guess the next move on the world stage to create wealth; you need to own the right stocks and hold them long enough for the story to play out. Remember: There is and will never be a dearth of noise on the street.
The biggest problem in real wealth creation is not finding good stocks or businesses which are going to grow in an economy like India. It is a tendency to look at your portfolio frequently. So don’t audit your portfolio every evening. That habit nudges you toward unnecessary decisions, buying because prices rose, selling because they fell when the right move is to let a sound thesis keep compounding. Why say this now? Because the point of
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