Background
Train, John was born on May 25, 1928 in New York City. Son of Arthur Cheney and Helen (Coster) Train.
(An expert reviews the experts - new and updated appraisal...)
An expert reviews the experts - new and updated appraisals of the winning investment strategies of the greatest financial wizards. Money Masters of Our Time is a reappraisal and revision of those money masters who have stood the test of time plus a look at new money masters. Train emphasises the parts of their various business careers that illuminate their investment techniques focusing on notable individuals whose decisions to buy and sell have actually made money grow. How do they reason? Where do they get their information? How much do they depend on fact and how much on psychology? What are their criteria in selecting a stock? What stocks are they buying now, and why? The ′Money Masters′ covered are: Warren Buffet, Paul Cabot, Philip Carret, Philip Fisher, Benjamin Graham, Mark Lightbrown, Peter Lynch, John Neff, T. Rowe Price, Richard Rainwater, Julian Robertson, Jim Rogers, George Soros, Michael Steinhardt, John Templeton, Ralph Wanger, Robert Wilson. Train centres on their investment techniques and methods and also gives brief biographical evaluations.
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(The best book in the investment field I've read in years"...)
The best book in the investment field I've read in years". -Paul Erdman, New York Times Book Review "The best . . . The book is eminently sensible and a pleasure to read". -Kiplinger's
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(A curious and amusing sampler of bizarre word origins det...)
A curious and amusing sampler of bizarre word origins details the origin, evolution, and current state of selected words whose meanings through the centuries have changed dramatically
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(An expert reviews the experts - new and updated appraisal...)
An expert reviews the experts - new and updated appraisals of the winning investment strategies of the greatest financial wizards.
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(Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had...)
Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was wound up, you could have elected to stay with Buffett as a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which was spun off from the partnership and became Buffett's investing vehicle. In that event, your $10,000 would by the end of 1986 have turned into well over $5 million. So, John Train introduces the remarkable story of Warren Buffett in his classic text, 'The Midas Touch'. First published in 1987, 'The Midas Touch' was one of the first books to recognise Warren Buffett's spectacular record, and to attempt to explain how he achieved his success. It is short, lucid and written with style and wit. A worthy testimony to its remarkable subject. From the back cover of the book: This is the book that tells readers how to invest like the man known as 'the Wizard of Omaha' (Forbes) and the investor with 'the Midas Touch' . Warren Buffett is the most successful investor alive - the only member of the Forbes 400 to have earned his fortune entirely through investing. Bestselling author John Train analyzes the strategies, based on the value approach, that have guided Buffett in his remarkable career, strategies that work even though Buffett operates a thousand miles from Wall Street.
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(Oriental carpets, from Turkey and Persia in the Middle Ea...)
Oriental carpets, from Turkey and Persia in the Middle East to China in the Far East, are amazingly rich in symbolism. This fascinating book will delight and enligh ten everyone who enjoys oriental carpets '
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(Foreword by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson. Illustrated...)
Foreword by Professor C. Northcote Parkinson. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. A classic study on different ways not to succeed. Everything from Mr. Ponzi, Tulipomania, the Kuwait Stock Exchange Explosion, Bernie Cornfeld, Ivan Krueger, and others. Shows the confusion of purpose, overgenerous investments, mistakes in timing and many other ways where investors have gone wrong. As Parkinson says, "It is better to learn from a book than to learn in a bankruptcy court.
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(Here are insights into nine of the most successful invest...)
Here are insights into nine of the most successful investors of our time -- Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, John Templeton, and Philip Fisher, among others. In these fascinating profiles John Train reveals the unique investment styles that have made each a master: the traits that distinguish them from the crowd and the techniques that create the single characteristic unifying them all -- consisently profitable investments. Their methods, Train reveals, include those both the nonprofessional and the seasoned investor can apply for profit.
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(From the author of The Money Masters and "America's pre-e...)
From the author of The Money Masters and "America's pre-eminent investor" (Business Week), this book ". . . imparts a wealth of lessons for any investor to emulate, no matter how skilled."The Market Chronicle
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(The long-awaited revision to John Train's classic Dance o...)
The long-awaited revision to John Train's classic Dance of the Money Bees-- Survival is competition. What you have, including your savings, others want, and will struggle to get. The push to take it back from you is as relentless as that of the sea to overcome the dikes that contain it or the jungle to enfold a patch of cleared ground. The whole order of nature pushes to reclaim its own. Only through deep understanding and superior tactics can the investor hope to preserve even part of what he has earned, and it gets harder every year….. In preserving capital the right attitude is indispensable. You must be passive in deciding to buy, but aggressive in searching out the values and in digging all the way down to the rock of reality….. It usually pays to wait patiently for the rare bargain in first-class assets, rather than keep swinging for the fences with a succession of exciting speculations. Enthusiastic hyperactivity is in fact the hallmark of the losing investor….. This book, then, is intended to tell the investor what he should be looking for and where to find it.
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(This decade's most brilliant and successful investors are...)
This decade's most brilliant and successful investors are profiled in a sparkling follow-up to John Train's 170,000 bestseller The Money Masters. Illustrated.
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(John Train's The Money Masters is one of the most widely ...)
John Train's The Money Masters is one of the most widely read investment books in history. In The New Money Masters, Train describes the technique of today's investment wizards, from Peter Lynch to George Soros. Revealed are the advantages of over-the-counter issues, the best ways to invest in foreign stocks and in newly industrialization countries, how the masters determine when the market is too high or too low, and how to lay out the key facts about a company in order to understand it most easily.
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(Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had...)
Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was wound up, you could have elected to stay with Buffett as a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which was spun off from the partnership and became Buffett's investing vehicle. In that event, your $10,000 would by the end of 1986 have turned into well over $5 million. So, John Train introduces the remarkable story of Warren Buffett in his classic text, 'The Midas Touch'. First published in 1987, 'The Midas Touch' was one of the first books to recognise Warren Buffett's spectacular record, and to attempt to explain how he achieved his success. It is short, lucid and written with style and wit. A worthy testimony to its remarkable subject. From the back cover of the book: This is the book that tells readers how to invest like the man known as 'the Wizard of Omaha' (Forbes) and the investor with 'the Midas Touch' . Warren Buffett is the most successful investor alive - the only member of the Forbes 400 to have earned his fortune entirely through investing. Bestselling author John Train analyzes the strategies, based on the value approach, that have guided Buffett in his remarkable career, strategies that work even though Buffett operates a thousand miles from Wall Street.
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(Over the years, Train's remarkable books have gathered a ...)
Over the years, Train's remarkable books have gathered a dedicated following for their hilarious deadpan humor and their stylish literary grace. Now John Train's Most Remarkable Occureences introduces even more remarkable stories and brings back the rarest gems from the first volume.
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(The Olive Tree of Civilisation has a rich and varied hist...)
The Olive Tree of Civilisation has a rich and varied history. The gnarled tree and its fruits has been extolled by bards from Ovid and Homer to Kipling, Tennyson and Nerua. What other fruit provides light, is a fundamental ingredient in perfume and adds joy and flavour at the table? The ancients knew these virtues and olive oil became a key to their religious and political ceremonies, from the temples of Ra in Egypt where lamps burned olive oil, to the temple of Soloman, where kings were anointed with oil based ointments. Christ was offered a sip of oil on the cross; Hanukah is, at its origin, a festival to celebrate olive oil; the tree and its oil are found in the Koran. Today the oil is worshipped by chefs for its flavours and its colours. For decades, cooks and anthropologists have divided Europe along an olive oil/butter boundary; that line is vanishing as olive oil spreads around the globe. This book explores and brings to life the olives's glorious past, with chapters on the fruit's role in
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(A collection of sixty true, yet totally unbelievable happ...)
A collection of sixty true, yet totally unbelievable happenings, including that involving the despondent wife who jumped out of her window and landed on her faithless husband, instantly killing him.
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(This beautiful and fascinating illustrated book tells the...)
This beautiful and fascinating illustrated book tells the story of the orange from earliest times. Brought back from India by Alexander the Great, citrus proved to be a lifesaver on long sea voyages, since it was the antidote for scurvy, which could incapacitate an entire crew. Columbus took it to the new world, and later Portuguese and Spanish kings required all captains to carry along oranges and plant them. Thus arose the vast proliferation of oranges in Florida. At the same time, the Italians and French made the orange a centerpiece of the Medici castles in Florence. This practice was followed by all the European courts, from Versailles to the Great Mosque in Cordoba. It is, of course, a favorite theme in art of the time, many of which are illustrated in this volume. The book also describes other uses of the citrus fruit, for example, cosmetics, perfumes, confections and liqueurs. In addition to its delicious quality as food, the orange is one of the world's favorite decorative plants. Th
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Train, John was born on May 25, 1928 in New York City. Son of Arthur Cheney and Helen (Coster) Train.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1950. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1951.
Founder, managing editor, Paris Review, 1952-1954;
staff, Assistant Secretary Army, Washington, 1954-1956;
associate, de Vegh & Company, 1956-1958;
chairman, Train, Smith Counsel (and predecessor firms), New York City, 1958-1994;
chairman emeritus, Train, Smith Counsel (and predecessor firms), New York City, since 1995;
co-chairman, then honorary director, ICAP, S.A., Athens, since 1964;
chairman, Montrose Group, New York City, since 1992;
president, Chateau Malescasse, Lamarque-Margaux, Bordeaux, France., 1970-1981;
columnist, Forbes magazine, 1977-1983;
columnist, Harvard magazine, 1983-1995;
columnist, Wall St. Journal, since 1984;
columnist, Worth Magazine, Boston, 1991-1993;
columnist, Town and Country magazine, 1994-1995;
columnist, Finance Times, London, since 1994;
board directors, African Development Foundation, Washington, 1988-1994. Board directors Bulgarian-American Enterprise Fund, Washington, Genesis Funds, London, International Rescue Committee, New York City. Chairman Northcote Parkison Fund, since 1988.
Board of Governors East-West Center, Hawaii, 1993-1996. Overseer National Endowment for Democracy International Forum for Democratic Studies, since 1995.
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(Here are insights into nine of the most successful invest...)
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(Over the years, Train's remarkable books have gathered a ...)
(In The Midas Touch, the author of The Money Masters, anal...)
(An expert reviews the experts - new and updated appraisal...)
(An expert reviews the experts - new and updated appraisal...)
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(From the author of The Money Masters and "America's pre-e...)
(The long-awaited revision to John Train's classic Dance o...)
(The long-awaited revision to John Train's classic Dance o...)
(This beautiful and fascinating illustrated book tells the...)
(John Train's The Money Masters is one of the most widely ...)
(History-especially the last century-has been filled to th...)
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( By 2010, baby boomers will pass ten trillion dollars to...)
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(Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had...)
(Second edition featuring a brand new foreword. If you had...)
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(Nonfiction: Humor, genealogy)
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Chairman Italian Emergency Relief Committee, 1976-1977. President Afghanistan Relief Committee, 1986-1995. Trustee Harvard Lampoon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974-1990, World Monuments Fund, 1988-1992.
Chairman Free Elections Project, 1990, British Museum National History International Trust, 1990-1995, The Train Foundation, since 1990. Trustee university council American University Bulgaria, since 1996, vice chairman. Overseer Whitehead School Government and Diplomacy Seton Hall University, New Jersey.
With United States Army, 1954-1956. Member of International Institute Strategic Studies (London), Council on Foreign Relations, Order Colonial Lords of Manors, Travellers Club (Paris), Beefsteak Club (London), Brook's Club (London), Union Club, Racquet & Tennis Club, Metropolitan Club (Washington), Century Club.
Married Maria Teresa Cini di Pianzano, 1961 (divorced 1976). Children: Helen, Nina, Lisa. Married Frances Cheston, July 23, 1977.