The Quotable Investor

ISBN: 1585742783

Author: Jacobs, Sanford

Condition: New

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 motherThe 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 AustenP. T. Barnum * Mark Twain * Warren Buffete.e. cummings * Will Rogers * Mikhail GorbachevTom Wolfe * Art Buchwald * Jeff BezosAlan Greenspan * Paul Harvey * Groucho MarxMohandas Gandhi * William Shakespeare * Ivan BoeskyAgatha Christie * Ronald Reagan * Noel CowardFull of good advice and big names, this books makes great browsing and the perfect gift for anyone who plays the market.