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Seth Werkheiser • 29 cards
Murphy was a highly disciplined buyer who had strict return requirements and did not stretch for acquisitions—once missing a very large newspaper transaction involving three Texas properties over a $5 million difference in price. Like others in this book, he relied on simple but powerful rules in evaluating transactions. For Murphy, that benchmark
... See moreWilliam Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
No trader or investor wanted to poke around suburbs to find out whether the homeowners to whom he had just lent money was creditworthy.
Michael Lewis • Liar's Poker (Norton Paperback)
If anyone knows about having a lot on the line, it’s Jordan Walters of the Silicon Valley branch of the investment house Smith Barney. Jordan is exactly the kind of person you’d look for in a financial planner: he’s calm, he’s thoughtful, and he always takes the time to listen. As we sat down in his office and sipped from the minibar-sized can of
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
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By 1922, Ivar secretly had hired a handful of men with no previous connection to him or his companies. These men trusted Ivar for all the wrong reasons: because he had saved them from prison or bribed them or paid them five times what they deserved. Ivar could ask these men to do things he would never ask of friends. Sometimes Ivar needed a person
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