Mark Twain's Timeless Wisdom on Money and Wealth for Today's Investor.
An avid buyer and seller of stocks, Mark Twain loved to poke fun at the financial markets. He was fascinated by scoundrels seeking to snatch the money of others, with two prime examples of this being the King and the Duke in the great American novel 'Huckleberry Finn'.
Mark Twain was born into poverty. Through eclectic business endeavours and smart investing, he amassed great wealth by the age of 50. He went bankrupt at 60, and became wealthy again at 70. He prospected for silver, sold his own books by subscription and took out patents on numerous inventions.
Using the words of Mark Twain, Andrew Leckey - an accomplished financial journalist - imparts the lessons today's investor can learn from Twain. The book is humorous and fun to read as it offers down-to-earth advice - as Leckey puts it - it will be as if Warren Buffett met the Beardstown Ladies.
Among the slices of timeless investment wisdom, Twain-style:
- Divide and conquer your portfolio
- The law of averages eventually makes you right
- He who hesitates can save a lot
- Every period in history had fool's gold
