A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

by Edward O. Thorp

I began life in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Along with millions of others, my family was struggling to get by from one day to the next. Though we didn’t have helpful connections and I went to public schools, I found a resource that made all the difference: I learned how to think.

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Fourth, I strove to be consistently rational, not just in a specialized area of science, but in dealing with all aspects of the world.

the value of withholding judgement until I could make a decision based on evidence.

Rational thinking