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Scott Phillips — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Scott Phillips has appeared on 18 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Motley Fool Money. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Scott said
“It's the light at the end of the tunnel, it's actually a train coming the other way.”
— Scott Phillips, on the inevitability of 40-year mortgages becoming the norm.
“Most of the money invested in AI will be lost. [...] Most of the money invested in railways was lost. But we still use trains.”
— Scott Phillips, on the distinction between the technology's impact and the profitability of its early investors.
“I completely and entirely disagree. I think minimum wage is really important.”
— Scott Phillips, directly countering Andrew's position.
“Don't hate the player, hate the game.”
— Scott Phillips
“Buffett always talks about you want a business a ham sandwich can run, because one day a ham sandwich is going to run it.”
— Scott Phillips on the importance of culture over individual genius
“How do we stop the reserve needing to do or choosing to do these things? And the answer is actually run the economy properly.”
— Scott Phillips
Episode appearances
18
Mailbag Episode: Overtime Taxes, Negative Gearing, and Intangible Investing The episode opens with co-hosts Scott Phillips and Andrew Page in an unusually optimistic mood. Page describes driving…
House prices can't grow faster than wages forever In a wide-ranging conversation on Motley Fool Money, Andrew Page and Scott Phillips walk through a simple but devastating mathematical reality:…
When Andrew Page set up Strawman.com, Australia’s premier online investment club, artificial intelligence did not exist in any usable form. The work took years, cost a fortune, and was brutally…
The Australian economy grew 0.4% in the June quarter, a number that sounds modest but carries a heavy contradiction. That growth is simultaneously too weak to lift living standards and too hot to…
“You can borrow an idea, but you can’t borrow the conviction.” That line, from Ramit Sethi’s discussion of his new book The One-Page Investment Plan, captures a theme running through this episode…
“If you pay for perfection, it’s so hard to get a good return out of that, even when the business goes well.” That line, from co-host Andrew Rampage, captures the throughline of this episode of…
“It was such a boss move. Such a flex,” Andrew Page says of Satoshi Nakamoto’s decision to remain anonymous. “It’s like, here it is, a neutral digital hard currency for the world, and I give it to…
“If you say to somebody, hey, you can get a 40-year mortgage instead of a 30-year mortgage, they will immediately say, well, what’s the benefit of that? And God loves the bank will say, so you’ll…
“I am down 50% from the high water mark,” Andrew Page says, not as a boast but as a matter of fact. “But I’m much higher than I was ten years ago. That is the price you pay for very high returns.…
“I think the best counterargument that you can come up with that I will get bored. Well here's the thing. Let's say that I retire and let's say a year later I'm just climbing the walls and I'm…
How do companies actually create wealth for their shareholders? It sounds like a simple question, but as Scott Phillips and Andrew “Ram” Page from the Motley Fool unpack it, the obvious…
A listener asks whether ETF holders are being "scammed" into buying SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic at peak valuations, thanks to a new NASDAQ rule that lets megacap IPOs join the index after just…
“The new bottleneck is creativity.” That line, from the CEO of Tura, frames the first half of this Motley Fool Money mailbag episode. Host Scott Phillips and Andrew Page spend the opening segment…
When the Founder-CEO Outlives Their Usefulness Scott Phillips and Andrew Page of Motley Fool Money recorded this episode from less-than-ideal circumstances—Phillips in a rain-soaked caravan on the…
“The maths actually maths.” That line from listener Hayden captures the central question of this episode of Motley Fool Money: if leverage is the secret sauce behind property’s wealth-building…
A Thousand Episodes of the Same Good Advice On the day Motley Fool Money recorded its 1,000th episode, Scott Phillips and Andrew Page sat down to reflect on nearly a decade of weekly conversations…
A listener who uses AI daily wrote in with a dilemma: they are worried that AI-driven job displacement is not a ten-year-out problem but something that could happen now. They have already seen…
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