Sir Isaac Newton’s South Sea Bubble Experience

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Rupert Hargreaves
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Once upon a time, the world’s greatest investor Warren Buffett said about investing, “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with a 130 IQ. Rationality is essential.” In his 2016 year-end letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett reiterated this point with an example: “Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius… But Sir Isaac’s talents didn’t extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, “I can calculate the…

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Sign up now and get our in-depth FREE e-books on famous investors like Klarman, Dalio, Schloss, Munger Rupert is a committed value investor and regularly writes and invests following the principles set out by Benjamin Graham. He is the editor and co-owner of Hidden Value Stocks, a quarterly investment newsletter aimed at institutional investors. Rupert owns shares in Berkshire Hathaway. Rupert holds qualifications from the Chartered Institute For Securities & Investment and the CFA Society of the UK. Rupert covers everything value investing for ValueWalk