First investing inspirer

An old man from a small New Zealand town on south island not even on the map. A man that would take an hour to get to the corner store (only 100meteres) cause he would have to talk to everyone along the way.
My grandad loved investing in shares he was consistent, always curious always passionate regardless of outcome. He was catching the bus to the investor meetings in his nineties,
He had class, I got into investing the very time a stock broker had run off with a substantial amount of his investment money (1987, Grandad had knew what was coming asked to sell, the fellow did then ran off to a exotic location with the money, it’s rumoured it was Perth) it would have been enough to buy a farm.
He never mentioned it, he never talk negatively about share investing, and was always very encouraging. I only know this story cause my mum told me five years after he died. He just kept investing.
I think also he talked about investing with almost the same enthusiasm he talked about fishing (almost). He never, ever mentioned his job.

The golden rules I learn from Grandad:
1. It’s a lifelong journey, there is no end to investing no I’ll do it for 3 years, like your holding breath, nope it’s something you always do.
2. Investing like fishing, is fine and fun to do on your own, but ultimate when can do in a team environment and share the victories.
3. Insatiable love for learning, travelling and meeting people, once he hit seventy if people asked how old he was he just said twenty-one,
4. Never confirm, it’s just plain silly.