Peter's Fans (6)

Peter L. Bernstein

Author profile

About this author

edit data

Founder and President of Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., which he established in 1973 as economic consultants to institutional investors and corporations around the world.

In 1951, after teaching economics at Williams College and a five-year stint in commercial banking, Peter became Chief Executive of a nationally–known investment counsel firm, where he personally managed billions of dollars of individual and institutional portfolios. The assets under management at the firm had grown more than tenfold by the time he resigned in 1973 to launch Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.

Peter was the first Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974, a widely-read scholarly journal for investment managers and academics in the field of...more

See if your friends have read any of Peter L. Bernstein's books.

combine editions
Books by Peter L. Bernstein

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,427 ratings · 208 reviews · 28 distinct works

	Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk 3.88 avg rating — 990 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation 3.60 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession 3.67 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street 3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Capital Ideas Evolving 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Primer on Money, Banking, and Gold (Peter L. Bernstein's Finance Classics) by Peter L. Bernstein, Paul A. Volcker (Foreword by) 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1964 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Peter L. Bernstein Classics: Capital Ideas / Against the Gods / The Power of Gold 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	The Price of Prosperity: A Realistic Appraisal of the Future of Our National Economy 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Portable MBA in Investment by Peter L. Bernstein, Margery Bernstein, Barbara Bernstein Fant 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1995	My rating:
	Plus Forts Que Les Dieux. La Remarquable Histoire Du Risque 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

More books by Peter L. Bernstein…

Upcoming Events

No scheduled events. Add an event.

Quotes by Peter L. Bernstein

“The information you have is not the information you want. The information you want is not the information you need. The information you need is not the information you can obtain. The information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

2 people liked it

“Our lives teem with numbers, but we sometimes forget that numberss are only tools. They have no soul; they may indeed become fetishes.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

2 people liked it

“The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to make choices, are what the story of risk is all about. And that story helps define what it means to be a human being.”
― Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

tags: risk

1 person liked it

See all Peter L. Bernstein's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
The History Book ...: * WHAT IS EVERYBODY READING NOW?	1370	1015	22 hours, 57 min ago

Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Peter to Goodreads.