Where Are the Customers' Yachts or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street
by Fred Schwed
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in Best Investing Books, Books Recommended by Warren Buffett, and Finance.
"Once I picked it up I did not put it down until I finished. . . . What Schwed has done is capture fullyin deceptively clean languagethe lunacy at the heart of the investment business." From the Foreword by Michael Lewis, Bestselling author of Liar's Poker ". . . one of the funniest books ever written about Wall Street." Jane Bryant Quinn, ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Best Investing Books, Books Recommended by Warren Buffett, and Finance.
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Warren Buffett
Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
“This is the funniest book ever written about investing. It lightly delivers many truly important messages on the subject.”
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