Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2017-02-14
Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Ian Cassel: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #24
Ian Cassel – Investing In Tiny Stocks - [Invest Like the Best, EP.24]
My guest this week is Ian Cassel, a microcap investor who is always on the lookout for small companies which are run by men and women who are what he calls intelligent fanatics.
Ian Cassel recommended How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss, Getting There by Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton and others, and Outsiders, The by William N. Thorndike Jr. and others, and discussed Zero to One by Peter Thiel and others and 100 to 1 in the Stock Market by Thomas William Phelps.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Zero to One
Discussed“The second thing is I look for companies that dominate the market that they're in the book zero to one, but Peter Thiel really helped to define this for me.”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Recommended“the first book that I remember reading over and over again, uh, when I was a senior in high school, you know, I could just tell that I wanted to brush up on my speaking skills”
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Think and Grow Rich
Recommended“And soon after that reading, think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill, which is also a classic that kind of helped me kind of reaffirm kind of how to set goals”
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Tools of Titans
Recommended“one of those books I'm reading now, which I think is a great book is a Tim Ferriss's book, tools of Titans. It's one of those things, especially for a person that might not have a lot of time”
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Getting There
Recommended“And there's another book called getting there that is kind of set up a similar way where it just kind of tells stories of, of leaders and whatever they did”
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Outsiders, The
Recommended“One of the formative books, not to get on this rabbit trail, but another formative book for me was, you know, William Thorndykes, you know, the outsiders.”
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100 to 1 in the Stock Market
Discussed“And it was kind of an offtake of Thomas Phelps book, a hundred to one, the stock market, which was written in the 1970s that looked at the similar thing.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Outsiders
“I thought he would just email me back right away and say, you know, yeah, here's the book, the outsiders or something like that. But he didn't respond right away.”