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JP Morgan by Ron Chernow.

Rockefeller Carnegie Elon Musk Bill Gates et cetera get the name and fame among American super tycoons.

But for me JP Morgan was the original bond villain.

Covers everything from how he saved New York City's finances to how he and his rich friends screwed Ethiopia over in an attempt to lend money to Italy.

Big time war profiteer and epic globalist and hands down the my favorite businessman of all time.

Also funded Edison and gave him money for the light bulb.

A psychopath, visionary, madman, elitist, unscrupulous intelligent bastard.

 

Do you like Chernow, I'm interested in both that and his biography on Alexander Hamilton, that's another guy that I think was a visionary, almost cut from the same cloth as JPM.

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

seconded, very great and interesting read.

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

The Snowball - Warren Buffett

The First Billion is the Hardest - T. Boone Pickens

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Eric gave me a copy of his new book "The Bogle Effect" a couple weeks ago. I'm just starting to get into it, but he's a really good writer.

The only difference between Asset Management and Investment Research is assets. I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
 

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