Soros: The Life, Ideas, and Impact of the World's Most Influential Investor

Soros... one of my all-time idols...

This book is so well written. Readers or fans of the world's most influential investor would find it hard to resist this book. However, for those who want to find tips and trading secrets from the mighty Soros, this book failed completely, LOL. Unfortunately, I belong to both sides. I am a big fan of George Soros. Hence, this book is like a gem to me. At the same time, I hope this book could at least inspire some fresh trading ideas to me. Obviously, I get nothing out of it.

At the same time, this book supposed to be a boring and dull book. Ironically, it is the opposite. The author demonstrates his excellent writing skill in ways that non-financial readers can easily understand every single part of this book. Overall, if tips and trading secrets is not your concern, this book qualified as one of those entertaining storytelling books. It is an excellent biography, so to speak.

For a full rating of 10, I am going to rate this book 7/10. Like I mentioned above, I enjoy reading this book. But, I just cannot find any excellent quotes to inspire me towards a better trading world. George Soros... at the end remains a myth to me...

The Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess

By coincidence, I flipped through few pages of this book in bookstore. It caught my attention immediately and I think this could be one of those books that deserved my time to read it on.

End up... yes, it is! This book is in fact more like a novel stuff. As such, readers would not feel boring as the bright side as well as dirty side of Wall Street was fully reveal in this book. Not only that... In fact, readers will be fascinated by the excitement, entertainment, profanity, drug use and explicit sexual contents. Call it a crazy world? I guess it is the intention from the author...

The only flaw is the author did not reveal as much as I expected on the maneuvering and manipulation of Wall Street trading. In fact, the author focus more on his personal story (which qualified itself as an awesome memoir) and the so called "buy side" is just a small part of the book.

Overall, this is an excellent book to me. The moment I started it, I just cannot put it down. There is one excerpt from the book, which I think the best quote to conclude this book: "Real success on Wall Street is measured not in bonus or salary but in photographs on desks of children wearing soccer uniforms and caps and gowns. Success on Wall Street is measured the same way it's measured by a factory worker, a math teacher, or an engineer with four children in Maine." For a full rating of 10, I am going to rate this book at 9. I enjoy reading this book. It serves as a good reminder on the dirty side of any capitalism market. 

我相信‧失敗

陈文茜，一个每个礼拜都让我和她准时有约的高智商分子（文茜的世界周报）。而且，书中名单上的大咖士还真的让人难以抗拒。随手拈来，就有周杰伦，蔡康永，阿信，刘若英，罗大佑，潘石屹等等。再来，“失败”这主题太吸引我了。成功学我兴趣不大（鸦片学也），失败学我倒是非常感兴趣的。重点是，作者还要我们相信失败！因此，这本书怎能错过呢？

如果说看陈文茜的“文茜世界周报”是种享受，阅读这本书理论上应该有过之而无不及的感觉吧。结果。。。感觉糟透了！第一，基于陈文茜本人的知识太广；很多时候，主持人好像有种喧宾夺主的感觉。来宾的光芒很容易被陈文茜的滔滔不绝给掩盖掉了。其实，看陈文茜的节目也是如此。往往，她个人主持的节目（在没有来宾的状态下）是非常棒的。一有第三者，陈文茜很容易忘了把空间留给嘉宾们。

第二，“失败”的主题真的很不搭。嘉宾“失败”的例子不多（基本上，简直是少之又少）。有的是很多“文学”上的讨论。难怪，书本上注明上架建议是“文学”，而不是我想象中的“励志”。

这类书籍很难让我留下深刻影响。或许，在电视机旁观赏，感觉会好一点。但，综合以上两点，我不得不承认：期望越高，真的是失望越高！10分满分，个人给予3分。这仅有的3分主要还是以下仅有的经典语录。结论是，这本书真的不是我想象中的那样。。。太失望了！

蔡康永：

我觉得人生起伏应该把它当成必然的节奏。悲伤跟开心，我都觉得是很多余的情绪。

“随遇”是一定的。人生就是随着我们的机遇往前走。“而安” 的安，应该把它当成是一个主动的动词。你碰到什么机遇，就要把它搞定。不要倒过来想因为无可奈何，我只好接受命运的安排。

如果你需要一个专业，应该了解在你的专业范围内，会有很多别的世界的人跑进来，他们最后都会是厉害的人，因为他们带了这个领域里大家都不懂的事。如果你有志于某个领域，千万不要只满足于这个领域的专业知识。

蒋勋：

即使到现在，我睡过好多了不起的卧房跟床，还是最怀念夏天那颗榕树的床。什么都有了以后，要回到没有的状况是很难的。

潘石屹：

如果没有创造力，你不就和机器人一样了吗？而且你做事情效率还没有机器人高。