Morgan Housel

Partner, Collaborative Fund and Former Columnist the award-winning author of Psychology of Money

Biography

Morgan Housel is a partner at Collaborative Fund and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. Author of the book The Psychology of Money. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He has presented at more than 100 conferences in a dozen countries. Morgan Housel is an expert on behavioral finance and history and a former finance columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal.

Morgan is also a winner of the New York Times Sidney Award and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. In 2007 he began his career as a columnist for The Motley Fool. By 2013, after working at The Motley Fool for nearly 9 years, he got promoted as the Senior Analyst, Money Fool One, and kept striving ahead. He kept

Life Journey

Life Defining Moments

Joined Collaborative Fund as a Partner
2021
Appointed as a Board Member at Markel
2014
Contributor, Wall Street Journal
2013
After working at The Motley Fool for nearly 9 years, got promoted as the Senior Analyst, Money Fool One
He began his career working as a columnist for The Motley Fool
2005
Studied BA, Economics at the University Of southern California

Suggestions to Youth

Money’s greatest intrinsic value - and this can’t be overstated - is its ability to give you control over your time.
Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money.
Planning is important, but the most important part of every plan is to plan on the plan not going according to plan.
Controlling your time is the highest dividend money pays.
Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems.
To grasp why people bury themselves in debt, you don’t need to study interest rate: you need to study the history of greed, insecurity, and optimism.
Plan to survive reality. Future filled with unknown is everyone’s reality.
Risk is what’s left over when you think you’ve thought of everything.