Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management; writes The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts Animal Spirits.
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It was perfect timing, as I had just read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator and was convinced I was going to be the next Jesse Livermore.
A post, 'The Best Kind of Learning,' tracing which investing books shaped his thinking and naming his ten favorite investing books; original page now 404s on theirrelevantinvestor.com, quoted from the Wayback Machine snapshot; book links are amzn.to affiliate links. (undated page)
Zurich-based investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.
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Before I discovered value investing, I was captivated by two other investment classics: Edwin Lelevre’s Reminiscences of a Stock Operator and The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros.
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