Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Remembering John Templeton

Sir John Marks Templeton, investment analyst and philanthropist, died on July 8th, aged 95

...Sir John Templeton spent his life going against the flow. In September 1939, when the war-spooked world was selling, he borrowed $10,000 to buy 100 shares in everything that was trading for less than a dollar a share on the New York Stock Exchange. (The Economist)

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