How to make 10x your worth without taking risk

When he wasn’t working his day job as a banker, Christopher Mayer was a finance enthusiast who ran an investments newsletter. 

He had a unique investment philosophy. Inspired by the book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market, his investment was centered around trying to pick 100-baggers, companies that could grow 100 times in value. 

Over the years, thousands of his newsletter subscribers were inspired by his “100-bagger” philosophy. They decided to try to pick their own 100-baggers,” and they had lots of success. 

These are just two of many emails his newsletter subscribers sent to him about their success of his 100-bagger philosophy: “In about 1969/1970, when a billboard in downtown Seattle read, ‘Will the Last Person Turn Out the Lights?’ a friend of mine had just sold an apartment house in Seattle and netted about $100,000 after tax. His view was that things couldn’t get any worse for Boeing, so he bought 10,000 shares at $9.50/share. Within about 10 years or so he was getting annual cash dividends for almost as much as he had paid for the stock. This had to be a 100-plus bagger with all the stock dividends and splits over the years. In 2002 I believe he still had not sold a share. 

“As an active investor and trader for 30 years I have come to the realization that this 100-bagger approach and philosophy is the way one should approach a lifetime of investing. If one could only receive the proper level of mentoring as a young man, to commit oneself to this course. . . . If only I knew this when I started out, I would not only be wealthier, but my quality of life would have been vastly better through all those years. 

“Anyone can invest in a 100-bagger—and many ordinary people have. Anyone can find them—or find close enough approximations. After all, who is going to complain if you only turn up a 50-bagger, or even a 10-bagger?” Mayer said. “Heck, most investors I know are delighted when they double their money in a few years.” 

Whenever someone claims that they can help you earn unrealistic returns, red alarm bells go off in everyone’s head. “This is probably a scam” is people’s gut-instinct reaction to such claims. Most investment books reinforce that thinking.

In fact, almost every investment book published has claimed “picking 10-baggers” as risky and to be avoided. That doesn’t really make much sense considering how heavily famed investors have relied on 10-baggers to make their fortunes. But I’d challenge you to look outside the box and be open to the idea that it’s possible to make big returns in the stock market. 

In fact, it’s a key difference in the Take Stock In This approach, and one of the defining reasons that I continually say Take Stock In This is the most revolutionary book on investing published since The Intelligent Investor was published in the 1950s. 

It’s the only one that claims that anyone can safely pick 10- baggers. Why? 

Because it happens all the time. 

In 2019, I invested in Apple at $38 per share. Today, those shares are up over 520%. In a few short years, I literally multiplied my investment 6 times over. Not long after, I invested in Facebook at $138 per share. 

Within only a couple years, each share grew to be worth more than $590 per share. People complain that it’s difficult to outperform the market by 1-2%. But here I am crushing the market many times over. Is there some luck involved with tech stocks going so high? Perhaps. But it doesn’t discount the fact that those were sound investment decisions. 

Again and again, if we look closer, we find that the best investors got rich by picking stocks that earned 10-bagger returns. 

Peter Lynch bought more than a dozen stocks that multiplied over 10 times during his 13-year investment career, according to Forbes. 

One of Peter Lynch’s most famous investments was investing in Dunkin Donuts in its early years, allowing him to earn 10-15x his investment. 

Nick Sleep focused his portfolio into three companies that became multi-baggers: Amazon, which has multiplied over 100 times to date; Costco, which is now up over 40 times; and Berkshire Hathaway, which is now up over 6 times. 

Warren Buffett’s four largest holdings are multi-baggers: Apple has earned over 5 times to date, Bank of America has earned 4 times, American Express has earned over 40 times, and Coca-Cola has earned 23 times.

You’re probably thinking, but doesn’t picking 10-baggers involve lots of risk? Aren’t most ten-baggers fly-by-night tech or biopharma companies that fall just as fast as they rise? Not necessarily. 

We’ve all been taught to think high reward equals high risk, after all. But 10-baggers can be found and purchased safely when you use the tactics we’ve been covering in the Take Stock In This method. And they can supercharge your portfolio in no time at all. 

When Peter Lynch invested in Dunkin Donuts, it was one of the most popular donut franchises in the world at the time. There was nothing remotely close to being speculative about the company. Yet, he still earned over 1,000% returns in the stock.

When John Neff invested in Ford Motor Company, it was one of the Big 3 automotive manufacturers in the country. It doesn’t get much more established and less speculative than that. Yet, he still earned over 500% returns in the stock. 

When Bill Ackman invested in Chipotle, it was one of the most popular fast casual restaurants. Again, there was no gambling on penny stocks involved. Yet, he still earned over 600% returns in the stock.

These investors aren’t investing in speculative penny stocks. They are earning multi-bagger returns by investing in some of the safest companies in the stock market, perhaps even companies that you would (or should) want in your own portfolio. While you can invest in penny stocks that end up growing 10 times, that’s a recipe for disaster. The trick is to invest in 10- baggers that also happen to be safe companies.

In short, the key to investing is buying safe multi-baggers. This article is an excerpt from Take Stock In This, which people say is the “best book on investing since The Intelligent Investor.” Click here to get a copy of the book today.