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Fortune's ChildrenBook

by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II

Who uses, recommends or left Fortune's Children, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money; writes essays on investor behavior.
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There’s a great book that I read a couple of years ago and I reread it last year, it’s one of my favorite books, it’s called Fortune’s Children. And it’s about how the Vanderbilt heirs spent their money and blew their fortune.

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money, Picking the Right Game, and the $6 Million Janitor (#576)"; on how rare it is to keep a fortune. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2022-03-05·tim.blog ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.