THE
QUIET
ROOM
Investing beyond the Battleground
BOB SIMPSON
FOUNDER & EDITOR, GARPIFY
GARPify

The Quiet Room

Investing beyond the Battleground — the free book from GARPify.

Most investment decisions — including a great many made by professionals — are made without sufficient information. Not for lack of brains. Because compiling what a proper decision needs is too hard.

The Quiet Room is a short book about the other way of investing: the one practised by every investor whose name has lasted, done by reading the record instead of watching the shouting.

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Thirteen questionsEach chapter is one question worth asking of any company — questions that outlast any single stock or season.
Plain languageWritten for the advisor with twenty minutes between meetings and the do-it-yourself investor at the kitchen table alike.
No tips, no targetsNo advice anywhere in it — and a chapter-by-chapter case for why the shop selling you those things isn't doing you the favour it appears to be.
Forty-five yearsBy Bob Simpson, founder and editor of GARPify, after forty-five years inside the Canadian investment industry.

What's inside

Thirteen chapters. Each one a question worth asking of any company you own.

1The Story
2Who Built the Quiet Room
3Is the Wave Real?
4The Business
5Who's Driving the Bus
6Financial Condition
7The Earnings Engine
8Guidance
9Valuation
10What Could Go Wrong?
11The Dog and the Walker
12The Temperament
13Think
+Epilogue — Your First Report

It contains no tips, no price targets, and no advice — and it explains, chapter by chapter, why the research shop that gives you those things is not doing you the favour it appears to be doing.

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