Well said, Taylor ... well said. And thank you for the comment. One other biography that is a personal favorite of mine ... a bit older and admittedly different in flavor than the Musk book, but one of my personal favorites ... is "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist," by Roger Lowenstein.
I've mentored a LOT of financial writers through my long (and getting longer ... lol) career ... first on the business staff of several newspapers I wrote for, and then here in the financial publishing industry ... and the Buffett book is one of the "must read" works that I share with them.
Worth a read.
So how are you doing? How's your Substack progressing? We've been ramping up here and I'm a bit behind on perusing some of my other favorites folks ... my continued best wishes to you ... and for you. Bill
There has always been a debate over who wrote the better book on Buffett. Personally, I preferred the Snowball by Alice Schroeder to Roger Lowenstein. However it has been a long time since I read the Making of an American Capitalist.
You can’t go wrong reading the Money Masters by John Train. Also Buffettology by Mary Buffett and David Clark.
But also read the history of Mania’s, Panic’s and Crashes to keep yourself grounded.
All good point ... love the Train book, which I need to read again. Love all the manias books ... Charles Mackay ... and Roger Beckman ... the JKG book on '29 is on that list, too. I did shorter takes on some of those manias in the book book I co-wrote back in '98 ... Jim Rogers wrote the foreword for us ... I have one I've been working on ... but not had the time to drill into it more .. everything you wrote here ... good stuff
What was the book you co-wrote with Jim Rogers, if you don’t mind me asking? I have read all of his books too and always recommend them too. I should also add the Barron’s Roundtable has never been the same after he left.
My favorite book on manias and crashes is the one by Edward Chancellor. I wish he would update it.
I wrote the book with a money manager named Tony Gallea ... it was a Prentice Hall book on Contrarian Investing. Jim did the foreword for us (he wasn't the co-author) ... I'd just come back from a reporting stint in China ... we talked about his work ... his time in China, and what I'd just seen ... and we hit it off. So he contributed the foreword/intro ... I ended up interviewing him several tmes when I was at Money Map Press in the 2010s ...Haven't talked for quite a while. But I have great respect for him ... loved his work ... he used to write a column for Worth, a glossy investing magazine that went hammer and tong with Smart Money, another great mag ... they were huge in the 90s, both gone now. Rogers' columns were superb. One of them is what inspired me to ask my newspaper to send me to China ...
Very interesting. I looked up the book on Amazon and realized that I have it. I will have to reread it and will add it to the stack of books I am already carrying around in my car library.
Yes, I remember the articles in Worth and Smart Money too.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Jim invited me to CNBC because he liked a review I wrote on an online forum about Investment Biker. The guest on the show that night was Jean-Marie Eveillard. I spent more time with Jean-Marie, who was great, because he sat with me in the waiting room before he was the guest on Mutual Fund Investor.
Afterwards, I hung out with Jean-Marie and Jim for a short while before we left the studio. Anyway, that certainly spurred and further enhanced my interest into value and contrarian investing.
The Elon book is by far one of the best reads I've ever read. The deep dive into his brain was absolutely astonishing!
Well said, Taylor ... well said. And thank you for the comment. One other biography that is a personal favorite of mine ... a bit older and admittedly different in flavor than the Musk book, but one of my personal favorites ... is "Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist," by Roger Lowenstein.
I've mentored a LOT of financial writers through my long (and getting longer ... lol) career ... first on the business staff of several newspapers I wrote for, and then here in the financial publishing industry ... and the Buffett book is one of the "must read" works that I share with them.
Worth a read.
So how are you doing? How's your Substack progressing? We've been ramping up here and I'm a bit behind on perusing some of my other favorites folks ... my continued best wishes to you ... and for you. Bill
There has always been a debate over who wrote the better book on Buffett. Personally, I preferred the Snowball by Alice Schroeder to Roger Lowenstein. However it has been a long time since I read the Making of an American Capitalist.
You can’t go wrong reading the Money Masters by John Train. Also Buffettology by Mary Buffett and David Clark.
But also read the history of Mania’s, Panic’s and Crashes to keep yourself grounded.
All good point ... love the Train book, which I need to read again. Love all the manias books ... Charles Mackay ... and Roger Beckman ... the JKG book on '29 is on that list, too. I did shorter takes on some of those manias in the book book I co-wrote back in '98 ... Jim Rogers wrote the foreword for us ... I have one I've been working on ... but not had the time to drill into it more .. everything you wrote here ... good stuff
What was the book you co-wrote with Jim Rogers, if you don’t mind me asking? I have read all of his books too and always recommend them too. I should also add the Barron’s Roundtable has never been the same after he left.
My favorite book on manias and crashes is the one by Edward Chancellor. I wish he would update it.
I wrote the book with a money manager named Tony Gallea ... it was a Prentice Hall book on Contrarian Investing. Jim did the foreword for us (he wasn't the co-author) ... I'd just come back from a reporting stint in China ... we talked about his work ... his time in China, and what I'd just seen ... and we hit it off. So he contributed the foreword/intro ... I ended up interviewing him several tmes when I was at Money Map Press in the 2010s ...Haven't talked for quite a while. But I have great respect for him ... loved his work ... he used to write a column for Worth, a glossy investing magazine that went hammer and tong with Smart Money, another great mag ... they were huge in the 90s, both gone now. Rogers' columns were superb. One of them is what inspired me to ask my newspaper to send me to China ...
Very interesting. I looked up the book on Amazon and realized that I have it. I will have to reread it and will add it to the stack of books I am already carrying around in my car library.
Yes, I remember the articles in Worth and Smart Money too.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Jim invited me to CNBC because he liked a review I wrote on an online forum about Investment Biker. The guest on the show that night was Jean-Marie Eveillard. I spent more time with Jean-Marie, who was great, because he sat with me in the waiting room before he was the guest on Mutual Fund Investor.
Afterwards, I hung out with Jean-Marie and Jim for a short while before we left the studio. Anyway, that certainly spurred and further enhanced my interest into value and contrarian investing.