With all the "noise" in today's financial markets, it's hard to know what things are truly critical to successful investing. That's why John Mauldin asked some of the best minds in the investment business to write about the "one thing" they had learned over their many years that they want their kids to know about investing and making money.

Introduction. 1. Signposts in the Fog (Andy Kessler). 2. The “Not-So-Simple” (But Really Utterly So) Rules of Trading (Dennis Gartman). 3. The Triumph of Hope over Long-Run Experience: Using Past Returns to Predict Future Performance of a Money Manager (Mark T. Finn and Jonathan Finn, CFA). 4. The Long Bond (A. Gary Shilling, Ph.D.). 5. Risk Is Not a Knob (Ed Easterling). 6. Psychology Matters: An Investors’ Guide to Thinking about Thinking (James Montier). 7. The Means Are the Ends (Bill Bonner). 8. The 2 Percent Solution (Rob Arnott). 9. The Outsider Trading Scandal (George Gilder). 10. The Winner’s Rule (Michael Masterson). 11. Rich Man, Poor Man (Richard Russell). 12. The Millennium Wave (John Mauldin). Notes. Index.

Mastery made easy! In traveling the shifting terrain of the financial world, one is often met with confusing and even contradictory directions. In the search for a reliable path, there's nothing like a personal guide—one who can show you the most direct route to your goal. In Just One Thing, author John Mauldin offers an incomparable shortcut to prosperity: the personal guidance of an outstanding group of recognized financial experts, each offering the single most useful piece of advice garnered from years of investing. Never before has such an esteemed assembly of financial gurus offered their most valued insights in such a succinct manner—and in a single volume. In marvelously readable essays of uncommon clarity, each contributor presents the most precious kernel of advice—just one thing—that he would pass on to his own children and his children's children. And now these gems of investment wisdom can be yours. What is the most important piece of investment advice you can find? Let these twelve investment gurus share with you the "Just One Thing" each of them has learned: Rob Arnott Bill Bonner Ed Easterling Mark Finn Dennis Gartman George Gilder Andy Kessler Michael Masterson John Mauldin James Montier Richard Russell A. Gary Shilling

Introduction. 1. Signposts in the Fog (Andy Kessler). 2. The ?Not-So-Simple? (But Really Utterly So) Rules of Trading (Dennis Gartman). 3. The Triumph of Hope over Long-Run Experience: Using Past Returns to Predict Future Performance of a Money Manager (Mark T. Finn and Jonathan Finn, CFA). 4. The Long Bond (A. Gary Shilling, Ph.D.). 5. Risk Is Not a Knob (Ed Easterling). 6. Psychology Matters: An Investors? Guide to Thinking about Thinking (James Montier). 7. The Means Are the Ends (Bill Bonner). 8. The 2 Percent Solution (Rob Arnott). 9. The Outsider Trading Scandal (George Gilder). 10. The Winner?s Rule (Michael Masterson). 11. Rich Man, Poor Man (Richard Russell). 12. The Millennium Wave (John Mauldin). Notes. Index.