The Education of a Value Investor The Education of a Value Investor

The Education of a Value Investor

My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment

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Publisher Description

What happens when a young Wall Street investment banker spends a small fortune to have lunch with Warren Buffett? He becomes a real value investor.

In this fascinating inside story, Guy Spier details his career from Harvard MBA to hedge fund manager. But the path was not so straightforward. Spier reveals his transformation from a Gordon Gekko wannabe, driven by greed, to a sophisticated investor who enjoys success without selling his soul to the highest bidder.

Spier's journey is similar to the thousands that flock to Wall Street every year with their shiny new diplomas, aiming to be King of Wall Street. Yet what Guy realized just in the nick of time was that the King really lived 1,500 miles away in Omaha, Nebraska. Spier determinedly set out to create a new career in his own way. Along the way he learned some powerful lessons which include:

> why the right mentors and partners are critical to long term success on Wall Street;
> why a topnotch education can sometimes get in the way of your success;
> that real learning doesn't begin until you are on your own;
> and how the best lessons from Warren Buffett have less to do with investing and more to do with being true to yourself.

Spier also reveals some of his own winning investment strategies, detailing deals that were winners but also what he learned from deals that went south.

Part memoir, part Wall Street advice, and part how-to, Guy Spier takes readers on a ride through Wall Street--but, more importantly, provides those that want to take a different path with the insight, guidance, and inspiration they need to carve out their own definition of success.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2014
September 9
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
224
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
2.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Rt.li ,

Good read

Valuable lessons on investing and life. Worthwhile to read again in the future.

JorgePM76 ,

Soul searching

I love the soul searching aspect of the book. It was very insightful.

Vadim Ts ,

Insightful into value investing and self-improvement

I have liked this book.
It provides insight into value investing approach, where price of an investment instrument is compared to underlying intrinsic value of what it represents. E.g. value of a stock is estimated by financials and growth opportunity of underlying company, rather than hype or fears from news media.
It also focuses on broader sense of investing in yourself, relationship, self-improvement, living as inner you. And consequently how this internal strength allows to invest cool-headed.

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