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3 Companies Winning Big With Small Bets

By Chris Hill | More Articles
December 23, 2011 | Comments (0)

Earlier this year on our nationally syndicated Motley Fool Money radio show, our guest was Peter Sims, author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries. In this audio segment, he shares how companies such as Amazon.com, Starbucks, and Disney's Pixar find great success by making small bets, while companies such as Procter & Gamble (among others) struggle to take risks.

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Chris Hill owns shares of Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Starbucks. The Motley Fool owns shares of Starbucks, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and Amazon.com and has created a bull call spread position on Cisco Systems. Motley Fool newsletter services have recommended buying shares of Amazon.com, Walt Disney, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, and Cisco Systems and creating a bull call spread position in Microsoft. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools don't all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.


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