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Synopsis
Here are words of wisdom and humor for everyone who is interested in Wall Street.
"Everyone has the brain power to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it."--Peter Lynch
"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."--J. Paul Getty
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody."--Adlai Stevenson
"If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it...it would have been much better."--Karl Marx's mother
The Quotable Investor is a wealth of witticisms on money-how to make it, how to lose it, and what to do with it. From the men who move billions of dollars with a few carefully chosen words to the writers, comedians, and columnists who point out when these words aren't so carefully chosen, The Quotable Investor is right on the money with quotes from:
Peter Lynch * Charles Schwab * Jane Austen
P. T. Barnum * Mark Twain * Warren Buffet
e.e. cummings * Will Rogers * Mikhail Gorbachev
Tom Wolfe * Art Buchwald * Jeff Bezos
Alan Greenspan * Paul Harvey * Groucho Marx
Mohandas Gandhi * William Shakespeare * Ivan Boesky
Agatha Christie * Ronald Reagan * Noel Coward
Full of good advice and big names, this books makes great browsing and the perfect gift for anyone who plays the market.
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The Quotable Investor is a wealth of witticisms on money - how to make it, how to lose it, and what to do with it. From the men who move billions of dollars with a few carefully chosen words to the writers, comedians, and columnists who point out when these words aren't so carefully chosen, The Quotable Investor is right on the money. Includes a foreword from former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. (5 7/8 X 6 7/8, 260 pages)
About the Author
Sanford Jacobs is a former Wall Street Journal senior staff writer. Several collections of his columns have been published as books. A graduate of the Wharton School, he ran his family's business in Kansas City, Missouri, sold life insurance, and managed commercial and residential real estate in Arizona, before starting his newspaper career. He and his wife live in Pennsylvania.
Paul Volcker worked as undersecretary in the Treasury Department, was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for four years, and preceded Alan Greenspan as the head of the Federal Reserve from 1979 through 1987.
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- PublisherLyons Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1585742783
- ISBN 13 9781585742783
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages238
- EditorJacobs Sanford
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