Anthony Scaramucci 
Goodbye Gordon Gekko 
How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul

How to live a more productive life by putting a profitablelifestyle ahead of profits

With his standout Wall Street line ‘Greed is good, ‘Gordon Gekko became pop culture icon for unrestrained greed. But, while greed might be great for one person-especially whenthat person is fictional-it’s not so great for goodpeople living in the real world. In Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How to Find Your Fortune and Not Lose Your Soul, Anthony Scaramuccidescribes how a better understanding of people, capital, andculture can be used to enrich one’s life, financially as wellas spiritually. With smart and engaging prose, the book:
* Discusses how the best manifestations ofambition, entrepreneurship and mentoring can lead to a life thatnot only fulfills financial obligations, but also leaves a lastinglegacy
* Describes ways in which Americans and American companies can act to avoid the kind of crisis thatcrippled the country’s economy
* Details how to build a core set of valuesto discover wealth on one’s own terms
Given the turmoil in financial markets over the past few years, many people are reevaluating what it means to be’rich.’ Goodbye Gordon Gekko shows howit’s possible to be well-off without all the trappings ofwealth.

Table des matières

Introduction.

Chapter 1 Ambition.

Ego versus The Egomaniac.

Chapter 2 Success and Failure.

Reaching for Excellence.

Chapter 3 Vocation and Meaning.

Let it All Hang Out.

Chapter 4 Capital.

Real Wealth.

Chapter 5 Knowledge.

Lessons from Unlikely Places.

Chapter 6 The Way of the Mentor.

Looking for a Hero.

Chapter 7 Teamwork.

There’s No ‘I’ in Team.

Chapter 8 The People That You Meet on the Street.

You Take the Good, You Take the Bad.

Chapter 9 How to Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul.

Further Reading.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

Index.

A propos de l’auteur

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and Managing Partner of Sky Bridge Capital, a New York-based alternative investment management com-pany, focused on partnering with emerging managers and seeding and mentoring Wall Street’s next generation of entrepreneurs. In the past five years, Sky Bridge has seeded emerging hedge fund managers and built a fund of funds business with $4.4 billion in total assets. From 1989 to 1996, Scaramucci was at Goldman Sachs, where he became a vice president in the private wealth management area in 1993. Scaramucci is a member of the Board of Overseers for the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, and a board member of the Lymphoma Foundation, the Brain Tumor Foundation, and the NYC Financial Services Advisory Committee. He was also a technical adviser to Oliver Stone for the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.