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Martin Scorsese and Leo DiCaprio teamed up for a third time to bring Wall Street hustler Jordan Belfort’s biography to the big screen. If you are fan of films such as Wall Street (the first one) and Boiler Room, you will be interested in this one as well. Belfort built and ran a boiler room operation in the ’90s before being busted and sent to prison where he served 22 months. From what I understand Boiler Room was inspired by his shenanigans.
Here’s the trailer. It comes out this November.
If you’re a fan of the Game of Thrones HBO series and now starting to experience withdrawal symptoms, I’d like to make a reading recommendation.
I first came across Conn Iggulden’s historical novels a few years ago. The cover art caught my attention and I made a mental note to try them one day. Well that day finally arrived three nights ago and I’m totally hooked. I refer to his novel Genghis: Birth of an Empire. This is one of those genuinely hard-to-put-down books and I am so looking forward to this weekend where I can mostly relax and read.
HBO really needs to take a long hard look at adapting this into a series.
I may or may not compile of list of list of quotes and insights from various people. This really isn’t a motivational blog.
However, this short list will take you far in life if you take it to heart.
A Review of Carlos Slim: The Richest Man in the World/The Authorized Biography
I really wanted this biography to be a good one. I mean “really wanted.” For me Carlos Slim personifies the very word “tycoon.” I find stories about men who started off with little in life, worked hard to save up a grubstake, and then parlayed it into a fortune over time far more interesting and inspiring than most of the post-1995 stories about tech people who went from zero to billions almost overnight mostly by virtue of having been in the right place at the right time. Yes, luck often played a significant role in their success. Whereas with the traditional tycoon route to success it’s far more the result of a long term commitment to building something lasting.
This was on 60 minutes last night. Bill got pretty emotional about his old friend Steve.
By the way, if you haven’t seen the movie about their early rivalry, Pirates of Silicon Valley, you should. It’s a B-movie but a pretty good one.
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