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11. Conclusion

Now you have completed your whistlestop tour of 'Ten Great Investors' whatlessons should you have drawn? Perhaps the most important is that there is not one way of investing in the stock market but many, and that they can all be successful.

Some of the Greats use mechanical strategies, others are far more intuitive;some focus on small companies, others concentrate on undervalued largecompanies; some are comfortable with technology hothouses, others preferbusinesses they understand.

All these methods, or a special blend of them, are available to you.

The key point is that you should employ a method of investing that suits your temperament and skills. Hopefully you will have been drawn to the methodologies of some of the investors profiled in this course, and deterred by others. And in coming to that conclusion you will have found out a little bit about yourself and the methodology that you should adopt.

Ten Great Investors is not a finite list. There is no reason why, when we come to update this course, your own name should not feature. Keep us posted!

You have now completed the course. To test your knowledge, take the Assessment test.

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