Supermoney (Wiley Investment Classics)
by Adam Smith
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Author: Adam SmithEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-05-26
ISBN: 0471786314
Number of pages: 298
Publisher: Wiley
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Book Review: What is 'SuperMoney?'
Summary: 5 Stars
In my opinion, the other reviewers miss the mark on this book. I bought this book when it first came out (yes, I was at the Lincoln inauguration...).
Anyway, this book has stuck with me all of those years for one over-riding principle...SuperMoney. What is SuperMoney? SuperMoney is the money you get when you leverage your own investment in your business into a publicly-traded company, and multiply it many times over.
Let's say you have a clever idea, and start a business. Let's say it's a furniture company, called, oh, I don't know, maybe Levitz Furniture (Levitz furniture, now defunct, pioneered the furniture warehouse concept. Some people will remember the musical slogan, 'You'll love it at Levitz!). This is an example from the book.
Anyway, you start this company. It's successful. You open a couple more branches. They are successful. You decide to incorporate and sell stock. The financial community suddenly falls in love with the idea of a furniture superstore, because they've never heard of such an idea before.
Now, your company, which started out pretty small, now has lots of people bidding up your company's stock. It turns out to be a hot stock. Since you started the company, you own most of the stock. Congratulations, my friend, you now have wheelbarrows full of money. SuperMoney! Remember the fancy furniture store that would never buy your mass-market furniture, with the owner who held his nose up in the air? Want revenge? Buy it! Use your new-found wealth, SuperMoney. Just sell off some of your stock, or have the company issue more stock and use that to trade for the assets of the hoity-toity company. Fire the manager who used to look down at you!
Or let's say you own a big, but boring utility company. Yes, you are rich, but nobody invites you to flashy parties where starlets (yes, that is a word) flit around and the champagne flows like water. Peel off some of that SuperMoney, and buy, I don't know...maybe a movie studio! Or maybe a fancy winery selling wines whose names you can't pronounce! Or maybe a super-snooty hotel where the restaurant sells $100 dinner courses!
It's a whole new world out there, isn't it? SuperMoney!
Highly recommended. This is an extremely entertaining book that explains the often arcane concepts such as leverage and publicly-traded companies in fun and illuminating (and real) examples.
Willie Sutton used to say he robbed banks because that's where the money was. Why risk jail time when you can be wealthier than you ever dreamed possible...just read this book, and come up with something new and catchy...
Summary of Supermoney (Wiley Investment Classics)
"Adam Smith continues to dazzle and sparkle! With the passage of time, Supermoney has, if anything, added to its power to inspire, arouse, provoke, motivate, inform, illuminate, entertain, and guide a whole new generation of readers, while marvelously reprising the global money show for earlier fans."?David M. Darst, author of The Art of Asset Allocation Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist, Morgan Stanley Individual Investor Group
"Nobody has written about the craft of money management with more insight, humor, and understanding than Adam Smith. Over the years, he has consistently separated wisdom from whimsy, brilliance from bluster, and character from chicanery."
?Byron R. Wien, coauthor of Soros on Soros Chief Investment Strategist, Pequot Capital Management
Supermoney may be even more relevant today than when it was first published nearly twenty-five years ago. Written in the bright and funny style that became Adam Smith's trademark, this book gives a view inside institutions, professionals, and the nature of markets that has rarely been shown before or since. "Adam Smith" was the first to introduce an obscure fund manager in Omaha, Nebraska, named Warren Buffett. In this new edition, Smith provides a fresh perspective in an updated Preface that contextualizes the applicability of the markets of the 1960s and 1970s to today's markets. Things change, but sometimes the more they change, the more they stay the same.
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