Product Description

The Only Three Questions That Count is the first book to show you how to think about investing for yourself and develop innovative ways to understand and profit from the markets. The only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing something others don’t know. This book will show you how to do just that by using three simple questions. You’ll see why CNBC’s Mad Money host and money manager James J. Cramer says, "I believe that reading his book may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor.

In The Only Three Questions That Count, Ken Fisher challenges the conventional wisdoms of investing, overturns glib theories with hard facts, and blows up complacent beliefs about money and the markets. Ultimately, he says, the key to successful investing is daring to challenge yourself and whatever you believe to be true. Packed with more than 100 visuals, usable tools, and a glossary, The Only Three Questions That Count is an entertaining and educational experience in the markets unlike any other, giving you an opportunity to reap the huge rewards that only the markets can offer.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #170184 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
"This book is quite simply the single best tome on investing that I have read in years." (Norm Conley, TheStreet.com, January 15, 2007)

"Here′s [an investment book] you′re going to want to read. And when you′re done, you′re going to want to read it again." (Don Luskin, SmartMoney.com, October 27, 2006)

"In an increasingly unquestioning world, Mr. Fisher has a refreshingly contrarian take on pretty much every subject you care to mention." (Steve Johnson, Financial Times, January 15, 2007)

"[Ken Fisher’s] new book, an illuminating and enjoyable read, is a tutorial on how to beat the market by thinking like a scientist: with an open, inquisitive mind." (Andrew Pitts, Money Observer, January 22, 2007)"

"…a refreshingly contrarian take on pretty much every subject…" (The Financial Times, January 2007)

 "an illuminating and enjoyable read." (Money Observer, January 2007)

"…aims to show the investors the way things really…a process that involves a keen examination of the actuality, coupled with a good dose of common sense." (Wealth Management, 1st August 2007)

From the Back Cover

Praise for THE ONLY THREE QUESTIONS THAT COUNT

"I believe that reading this book may be the single best thing you could do this year to make yourself a better investor."
—From the Foreword by James J. Cramer

"The Only Three Questions That Count is a great resource for investors. Ken pushes his readers to go against the grain and not accept conventional investing thinking. His questions are food for thought for anyone craving a fresh take on investing."
—Gregory E. Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer Franklin Resources, Inc.

"Money manager maestro Ken Fisher has been profitably enlightening our readers with his columns for more than twenty years. Investors will find this brilliant book an eye–opening, capital–gains producing experience."
—Steve Forbes, CEO of Forbes, Inc. and Editor in Chief of Forbes

"A provocative book for aggressive investors—from one of the investment world′s most original thinkers."
—Charles R. Schwab, founder, Chairman, and CEO

The Charles Schwab Corporation

About the Author

Ken Fisher is best known for his prestigious "Portfolio Strategy" column in Forbes magazine, where his twenty–four year tenure of high–profile calls makes him the fourth longest–running columnist in Forbes′ 90–year history. Ken is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Fisher Investments—an independent, global money management firm with over $45 billion under management—and has appeared in most major American finance or business periodicals. He is also the author of the new investment book, The Ten Roads to Riches, from Wiley.

Jennifer Chou is a Research Analyst of global capital markets and macroeconomics at Fisher Investments. She graduated from the University of California with a BS in finance.

Lara Hoffmans is a Research Analyst at Fisher Investments. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in theatre.

Customer Reviews

Insight into the World of Markets
This book provides a wonderful array of investment ideas that you simply will not have read before. Ken Fisher's 'Portfolio Strategy' column in Forbes is well known but this book provides an intellectual approach that is radical and thought-provoking. For anyone who runs their own money or is thinking of using a money manager it will provide an armoury for either self-analysis or interrogation that could stop them from making profound mistakes with their capital.

Straightforward investing insights
Ken Fisher is one of the most famous market pundits and money managers in the United States, and one of the few to occupy a spot on the Forbes list of America's richest people. In this book, he debunks conventional wisdom and widely believed folklore about securities markets and the process of investing. He suggests a sort of investors' examination of conscience: They should routinely ask themselves three simple, straightforward questions to ensure that they are not falling into avoidable error: Which of my beliefs are false? What can I understand that others cannot understand? And, what cognitive illusions are fooling me now? He provides ample supporting research to buttress his assertions about the market and, more to the point, to topple the false wisdom that leads so many investors to failure. We find that Fisher is lucid, strongly opinionated, sometimes a bit of a crank (a long tangent on Gertrude Stein seems particularly out of place in this book) but, on the whole, well worth reading.

I find this person annoying
The main thrust of this book this that debt is good. I wonder how he feels now (2008/2009). Some of it is quite esoteric which I find irritating,"Is there a there there." Some chapters had some valid information but common knowledge ie, buy and hold is the best policy, and knowing what others don't is how to make money. Not impressed, I will re-read it and come back to this review.