Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2016-11-08
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Brent Beshore: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #10
Brent Beshore – Cultivating a Disaster Resistant, Compound Interest Machine - [Invest Like the Best, EP.10]
This week’s guest is Brent Beshore, Founder and CEO of adventur.es, a family of companies that invests in family-owned companies. Brent has a very specific mission with this company, to cultivate a disaster resistant, compound interest machine.
Brent Beshore recommended Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter D. Kaufman, Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) by Carol Tavris, and The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty by Dan Ariely, and discussed Bible. Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen, Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins, and The Robert Collier Letter Book by Robert Collier.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Poor Charlie's Almanack
Recommended“If you're going to be in the investing business, I'd say, you know, in terms of books that really helped shape what I was thinking, poor Charlie's Almanac, you know, what Peter Kaufman put together there was just, I mean, just spectacular, right?”
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The Fish That Ate the Whale
Recommended“I'd highly recommend it. It's actually one of my favorite books that just, it's not a super long read, but you talk about a guy who immigrated from Russia, had nothing, hustled, hustled, hustled, had no capital base, had nothing to do except for just hustle.”
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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
Recommended“Um, you know, I really like the book mistakes were made, but not by me, which may sound like an interesting investing recommendation, but it really talks about the psychology of self-deception.”
Where to get it
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The (Honest) Truth about Dishonesty
Recommended“It's had a, it's had a big impact on the way I think about things kind of like Dan Ariely's book about dishonesty. That's another, another really interesting one to just really hold the mirror up about who we really are, I guess would be a way to say it.”
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Scientific Advertising
Recommended“Did you ever read either Robert Collier's letter book or scientific advertising? I wrote scientific advertising. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's the, uh, it's kind of a fun, weird sub, sub, sub genre of books about how to write direct mail ads, which sounds like no one would want to read it.”
Where to get it
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The Robert Collier Letter Book
Recommended“Did you ever read either Robert Collier's letter book or scientific advertising? I wrote scientific advertising. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's the, uh, it's kind of a fun, weird sub, sub, sub genre of books about how to write direct mail ads, which sounds like no one would want to read it.”
Where to get it
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Bible
Discussed“for me, uh, you know, a lot of knowledge is found in the Bible and my, you know, prayer life's important to me. Uh, that's something that, you know, I've really, um, you know, has been a blossoming for me”
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