Investor Book Reviews Samples For Students

The book focuses on the financial aspects of investing in stocks. The author’s main contentions are that long term investment in the stocks is cheap to the investor and yields higher income than short term investments. The author backs these sentiments with an in depth research and analysis that shows the strategies and steps that can be used to accumulate portfolio with high returns at low risk. These contentions are in tandem with the historical information, which the author has also presented. The historical records show how the long term stocks have turned out to be low risk ...

I have learnt that success comes from passion. Every investment that we make is passion based. The book introduces Warren Buffet as a man who is content and who loves what he does. I have subsequently learnt that the best business opportunities also thrive on passion. I should ask myself if I genuinely like doing what I am thinking of investing in.

In addition, I have learnt that I need to have the qualities of an investor for me to succeed in business. These include patience, discipline, flexibility, courage, confidence, and decisiveness. Each of these qualities plays a significant role in ...

Introduction

The book “Greed and Fear” is a very powerful account of the impacts of psychology on economics. This book takes an insight overview of the investor irrationalities and its effects on the market prices and returns. The author gives an account of how the effects contradict the efficient market hypothesis. According to the author, the phrase “hope and fear” gives a better description of the reactions and the behavior of different market players. From the book it can be established that all financial practitioners eventually let bias, overconfidence and emotion influence their judgment and actions. The author uses the latest psychological ...

Overview of the book

Yunus, Muhammad, and Karl Weber. Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. New York: Public Affairs, 2010. Print.
The book was authored by Muhammad Yunus. Yunus is the founder of the Grameen Bank, which is a microcredit institution. Through his economic policies, Yunus made an immense contribution to the fight against poverty and through his economic paradigm; he manages to espouse an economic model that places humanity at the heart of polling resource together for positive potential. His efforts in the promotion of social business enabled him to win the 2006 Nobel ...

Jim Cramer, the author of the book entitled Get Rich Carefully, is a renowned television personality, and he is at the epicenter of the investment success. Jim possesses a breadth of knowledge about stock and bonds. Moreover, he is a reservoir of the financial information. Contrary to his previous books, Jim’s Get Rich Carefully focuses more on the roadmap and a checklist for an intelligent and disciplined stock investment process. Through his previous professional experience and as a manager of thriving hedge fund, he has engaged in heavy lifting and his professional and life experiences in the financial industry provides the driving force ...

Summary Based on the Book “Rework”

Rework was written by two successful life hackers for those, who also want to “hack” business reality, full of prejudices and stereotypes. Life hacker is not a superhero from the TV, but an average person, who uses wit, observation and knowledge in the most efficient way in order to break the traditional system, to get rid of the routine. The guys from 37 signals act similarly: they do not make any sensational discoveries; they just show a little bit of observation and common sense, and recommend us to act the same way, if we do not want to get caught up ...