Where Are The Customers' Yachts?, Or, A Good Hard Look At Wall Street

Ranked #29 in Stock Market Investing, Ranked #64 in Investment

"Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished . . .What Schwed has done is capture fully-in deceptively cleanlanguage-the lunacy at the heart of the investment business."-Fromthe Foreword by Michael Lewis, Bestselling author of Liar'sPoker

This hilarious portrait of everyday Wall Street and its denizensrings as true today as it did when it was first published in 1940.Writing with a rare mixture of wry cynicism and bonhomiereminiscent of Mark Twain and H. L. Mencken, Fred Schwed, Jr., skewers everyone including himself in his brilliant send-ups ofbankers, brokers,...
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Warren Buffett CEO/Berkshire HathawayThe funniest book ever written about investing, proclaimed in his 2006 shareholder letter, it lightly delivers many truly important messages on the subject. (Source)

Jason Zweig Even now, some 70 years later, this is still the funniest book ever written about Wall Street. (Source)


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