Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul
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Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul
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Overview
The investment expert shows how a better understanding of people, capital, and culture can enrich one’s life financially as well as spiritually.
It is time to say goodbye to Gordon Gekko, the rogue character famously portrayed by Michael Douglas in the classic movie Wall Street. In Goodbye Gordon Gekko, author Anthony Scaramucci explores opportunities for leading a rich life in a difficult, radically changed economy. Believing that the financial crisis was caused by a nation of Gekko-wannabes tripped up by status anxiety and egocentric tendencies, he argues that you can be happy and financially profitable as long as you stay true to yourself and stick to your values and principles. Scaramucci offers hope, urging you to pass through the happily-ever-after portal so that you can find your fortune and all that is fortunate.
With years of experience at Goldman Sachs, and having co-founded two successful alternative investment management companies, the author provides a behind-the-scenes view of life on Wall Street—the wins and the losses, the rights and the wrongs, the successes and the failures, the good mentors and the difficult colleagues. Through these entertaining and insightful stories, featuring advice from a diverse cast of characters ranging from Li Ka-shing to John Weinberg to his Italian nana, Scaramucci identifies the temptations and roadblocks that accompany our professional ambitions and personal choices, revealing the rules for leading a profitable and fortunate life.
What does this mean in practical terms? As Scaramucci shows, it means ridding yourself of egotistical tendencies and developing the self-awareness to bounce back from failure. It means building a circle of competence made of those you trust, mentoring and celebrating others, and giving back to your community and country, all the while targeting success. It means seeing capitalism as an art and businesses as creations and vocations, not simply as levers to feeding your ego. Goodbye Gordon Gekko provides a road map to help people achieve true wealth defined beyond a checking account.
Praise for Goodbye Gordon Gekko
“A fun, easy read, with sage advice.” —Oliver Stone, three-time Academy Award Winner; Director, Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
“A truly insightful read. It introduces us to a moral compass on Wall Street—finding riches by direction of a true north as opposed to insidious Gekko-style greed.” —Josh Brolin, Academy Award Nominee; Actor, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Active Trader
“Scaramucci is a unique combination of great entrepreneur and savvy Wall Streeter. His perspective on all things business is invaluable and here for all to read.” —David Faber, Anchor, CNBC
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780470767092 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 08/31/2022 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 224 |
| File size: | 461 KB |
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Table of Contents
Introduction.Chapter 1 Ambition.
Ego versus The Egomaniac.
Chapter 2 Success and Failure.
Reaching for Excellence.
Chapter 3 Vocation and Meaning.
Let it All Hang Out.
Chapter 4 Capital.
Real Wealth.
Chapter 5 Knowledge.
Lessons from Unlikely Places.
Chapter 6 The Way of the Mentor.
Looking for a Hero.
Chapter 7 Teamwork.
There's No “I” in Team.
Chapter 8 The People That You Meet on the Street.
You Take the Good, You Take the Bad.
Chapter 9 How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul.
Further Reading.
Acknowledgments.
About the Author.
Index.
What People are Saying About This
Scaramucci's book is a truly insightful read. It introduces us to a moral compass on Wall Street—finding riches by direction of a true north as opposed to insidious Gekko-style greed. (Josh Brolin, Academy Award® Nominee; Actor, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Active Trader)
Anthony Scaramucci is a unique combination of great entrepreneur and savvy Wall Streeter. His perspective on all things business is invaluable and here for all to read. (David Faber, Anchor, CNBC)
With extraordinary honesty, grace, clarity, humor, insight, and emotional intelligence, Anthony Scaramucci here masterfully delivers timeless and priceless wisdom and wit that will ennoble and energize parents and children, teachers and students, coaches and athletes, bosses and workers, not to mention all three branches of government. (David M. Darst, CFA, Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist,Morgan Stanley Smith Barney)
A fun, easy read, with sage advice. Scaramucci is a player, looking under the rocks of corruption in our financial capital, and he survives as an honest soul. (Oliver Stone, Three time Academy Award® Winner; Director, Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
There is only one Anthony Scaramucci and only the Mooch could have been so entertaining, insightful, and honest while sharing his life with us. Thank you, Anthony, and continue to make a difference. (Bobby Valentine, Former Major League Baseball Manager, New York Mets)