Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Art of War



The spider depicts how we buy stocks: Time, Find and Score. For the spider, it is Wait, Aim and Bite in the cover of my book The Art of Investing.
Actually its availability from the free clip arts is the sole reason for my choice and the above is makeup. :)
 
The Art of War
The title of this book was inspired by the above book that was written about 2500 years ago. I was surprised that no one uses the title The Art of Investing.
With some minor interpretation (such as the titles of the officials, the capital names...), Chinese text can be understood even from that long ago. I believe they're craved on bamboo. It has 13 chapters. I believe there were more books from this author and got lost from the long history. This book could be the official recording from the emperor, a usual practice in Chinese history.

Japanese business men use this book and the Romance of Three Kingdoms a lot. The US army adopted this book as the required reading for their officers. I do not think it would be useful in today's warfare except the urban wars that we lose most of the time. Maybe the other side studied harder than us. I will try to see what and how this book is relevant to investing. Initially none except some for day traders.

The story
The emperor asked that author to demonstrate his technique of training an army. He asked the emperor's ladies to learn how to drill. After several laughs, two leaders of the drill were beheaded and then everyone was serious and then he had trained successfully the most beautiful army in world's history.
http://tonyp4idea.blogspot.com/2014/05/on-wars.html

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