Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2024-02-06
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Chuck Akre: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best
Chuck Akre - The Three Legged Stool - [Invest Like the Best, REPLAY]
Today, we're running a replay of my 2019 conversation with legendary investor Chuck Akre. Chuck founded Akre Capital Management in 1989, which now manages approximately $14B dollars.
Chuck Akre discussed A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps, at Machaness in Barbary, and of His Strange Escape in Company of Edmund Baxter and Others, as Also of the Burning Two of the Greatest Pirat-ships Belonging to that Kingdom, in the River of Mamora by Thomas Phelps.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A True Account of the Captivity of Thomas Phelps, at Machaness in Barbary, and of His Strange Escape in Company of Edmund Baxter and Others, as Also of the Burning Two of the Greatest Pirat-ships Belonging to that Kingdom, in the River of Mamora
Discussed“And he wrote the book called "100 to One in the Market" in 1972. And that was a book that, to this day, remains inspirational to me, fundamental to me in terms of thinking about the issue of compound return.”
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