Smart Luck & the Seven Other Qualities of Great Entrepreneurs

by Andrew Davidson

This text probes deep into the backgrounds and psychology of a wide range of the self-made and successful, to find the common links that could explain what it is that makes them different.

Genres: Business

273 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2002

About the author

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Andrew Davidson is a financial innovator and leader in the development of financial research and analytics. He has worked extensively on mortgage-backed securities product development, valuation, and hedging. He is president of Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc., a New York firm specializing in the application of analytical tools to investment management, which he founded in 1992. He is co-author of the books Securitization: Structuring and Investment Analysis and Mortgage-Backed Securities: Investment Analysis & Valuation Techniques. He has also contributed to The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities, Mortgage-Backed Securities: New Applications and Research, and The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. He received an M.B.A. in Finance at the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University.

Reviews

[Aditya Jain]

The book present the comcept with facts in the form of things from life of many successful people. A good read to understand the qualities and how to put them in place.