My Story
About David Hirschberg
My name is David Hirschberg - an investor, entrepreneur, and writer who believes that knowledge is the strongest form of capital. I focus on ideas and strategies that help people build not only wealth, but also the freedom to live on their own terms.
My Core Value
Freedom
From the very beginning of my investment journey, what interested me most was not the process of multiplying capital itself, but what lies behind it - the ability to live life on my own terms. For me, money has never been the ultimate goal. It became a tool that opens the door to freedom.
Freedom has always been my core value. I don’t mean freedom in some abstract sense - for me it’s deeply personal. It’s the ability to decide where and how to live, what choices to make, and which principles to follow. But to live freely in the modern world requires more than just desire - it requires a source of income. Unless you plan to retreat into the forest and live off roots, but want to remain part of modern life and still be free, you need money - or more precisely, a source of income. For me, that source has been investing.
My Path to Investing
As a child, I was fascinated by cars. Even as a boy, I realized that the shiny car owned by our neighbor lost value year after year - but then I discovered something that amazed me. Not all cars behaved this way. There were certain rare models that, instead of depreciating, actually increased in value over time. That was a revelation. It turned out that the worth of things doesn’t always fall as they age, even when newer versions appear. From that moment, I began searching for similar examples - cutting out pictures of cars from magazines, visiting auto shows, constantly pestering my parents with questions… That was my very first step toward investing, even though I didn’t yet know the word. In a way, I was unconsciously combining an appreciation for beauty with the idea of investment - though only in my imagination back then.
Later I realized it didn’t have to be cars. There were many other asset classes that showed more consistent growth in value than luxury cars. And it wasn’t only real estate. Finance books, the few I could get my hands on, introduced me to the stock market and precious metals. Later I developed an interest in antiques, collectible watches, and gemstones. I felt like I was piecing together a puzzle: different asset classes, different stories of appreciation, different investment principles.
Curious by nature, I devoured information, spotted patterns and anomalies, and drew my own conclusions. Sometimes these conclusions contradicted common opinion and what other public investors were saying. In a private conversation with one of them, he shared views that were strikingly different (almost the opposite) from what he later published in a well-known financial magazine. That was when I realized what responsibility really means, and how much it can shape freedom.
This approach, and the knowledge I built, helped me - despite my youth - to navigate Black Monday in 1987 with confidence, as well as the financial crises that followed, including the global crash of 2008. Over time I began to see the cycles more clearly: events echoed earlier ones, sometimes with new technological layers, but with the same essence and the same consequences. Digging deeper into history, even into centuries past, I discovered patterns that only reinforced my convictions.
It only felt natural to share these insights with a wider audience. So I began to write.
Stay focused on the goal and keep moving forward regularly, even with small steps - that’s the real secret of success.
David Hirschberg
