My Vast Fortune: An Investor's Fiscal Triumphs and Money Misadventures (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Tobias, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156006227 ISBN 13: 9780156006224

Publisher: Harper Business, 1998

Synopsis

In "My Vast Fortune," the bestselling author of "The Only Other Investment Guide You'll Ever Need" tells the amusing and illuminating story of how he amassed dizzying (well, to him) wealth. Then, he describes the unusual ways he's put it to work. Among his more famous money adventures are his personal campaign against smoking in Russia, which began when he spotted an opportunity to buy cheap TV airtime for commercials; his decision to buy real estate in Miami over the phone, without ever seeing it. For the price of a swank two-bedroom apartment in New York, Tobias realized he could buy most of a neighborhood - so he did. Oops. The tragicomic story of liberal as slumlord; and his crusade to fix the auto insurance mess, which pitted him against - of all people - his onetime hero Ralph Nader. Finally, Tobias addresses your vast fortune and offers his wisest tips on how to make it and how to spend it.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Tobias was born in New York, attended Harvard College and Harvard Business School, and has written extensively for twenty-five years on subjects relating to money, business, and personal finance. He has received both the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism and the Consumer Federation of America Media Service Award. He lives in Miami, New York, and cyberspace--atobias@aol.com.

From the Inside Flap:

ook will make you rich. Filthy stinking rich. You will never need to work again. You will spend the rest of your life on the Riviera sipping piña coladas and listening to Sinatra. And even if this doesn't happen, Andrew Tobias will provide you with such a wealth of wit that you will retire with a vast fortune of laughter. "
--Christopher Buckley, author of Wry Martinis

As Newsweek put it, "Andrew Tobias remains the funniest of the financial writers."  Forbes identified him as "one of the financial community's most pithily perceptive observers." In My Vast Fortune, the bestselling author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need tells the amusing and illuminating story of how he amassed dizzying (well, to him) wealth. Then, he describes the unusual ways he's put it to work. Among his more famous money adventures are:
His personal campaign against smoking in Russia, which began when he spotted an opportunity to buy cheap

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0156006227
• ISBN 13: 9780156006224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224