# Mohnish Pabrai: This will save you 10 years of bad investments

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Podcast: [My First Million](https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-first-million-438184)
Published: 2026-05-22T14:00:00+00:00
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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 from $10,000 to $1M in just 3 years The Dhando Investor - https://a.co/d/0hkx1t8g — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton (joinhampton.com): My community for founders. Average member does $25m/year. Many of the guests are members. Get after it...apply: http://joinhampton.com/mfm — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for yo…

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