{"id":36,"date":"2026-05-29T18:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:26:38","slug":"my-biggest-investing-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"My Biggest Investing Regret"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren Buffett and Charles Munger calls not taking action, or delaying taking action with investments as: <strong>Sucking on your thumb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My largest regret is Amazon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Amazon:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After I read in the news about Amazon, nearly falling into bankruptcy. I remember thinking that I believed Bezos could truly turn things around because Amazon was a massive global contender. This was when I was just one year shy of twenty in 2002. I didn&#8217;t invest because I felt as a european it was complicated with filing taxes and American stocks.<em> I didn&#8217;t realize that if I don&#8217;t sell any shares<\/em> and just Invest long-term I don&#8217;t have to file yearly taxes reports. Bummer! :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren Buffett and Charles Munger calls not taking action, or delaying taking action with investments as: Sucking on your thumb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investorgreats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}