The Americanization of Edward Bok 4. Đây là một cuốn sách rất ý nghĩa, dễ đọc và hàm chứa nhiều bài học hay về phong cách sống, về quản trị cuộc đời. Có những bài học có thể áp dụng cho cuộc sống hiện tại của mình. Đặc biệt là câu chuyện kể về việc Edward đã thành công như thế nào khi nỗ lực xây dựng tuần báo The Ladies Home Journal và những bài học về cách tạo dựng cuộc sống cho riêng mình: Hãy đơn giản hóa mọi khó khăn, nghiêm khắc với bản thân, quyết tâm. | wizard of Wall Street. One day the financier had to dictate a contract and coming into Mr. Cary s office decided to dictate it then and there. An hour afterward Edward delivered the copy of the contract to Mr. Gould and the financier was so struck by its accuracy and by the legibility of the handwriting that afterward he almost daily happened in to dictate to Mr. Cary s stenographer. Mr. Gould s private stenographer was in his own office in lower Broadway but on his way down-town in the morning Mr. Gould invariably stopped at the Western Union Building at 195 Broadway and the habit resulted in the installation of a private office there. He borrowed Edward to do his stenography. The boy found himself taking not only letters from Mr. Gould s dictation but what interested him particularly the financier s orders to buy and sell stock. Edward watched the effects on the stock-market of these little notes which he wrote out and then shot through a pneumatic tube to Mr. Gould s brokers. Naturally the results enthralled the boy and he told Mr. Cary about his discoveries. This in turn interested Mr. Cary Mr. Gould s dictations were frequently given in Mr. Cary s own office where as his desk was not ten feet from that of his stenographer the attorney heard them and began to buy and sell according to the magnate s decisions. Edward had now become tremendously interested in the stock game which he saw constantly played by the great financier and having a little money saved up he concluded that he would follow in the wake of Mr. Gould s orders. One day he naively mentioned his desire to Mr. Gould when the financier seemed in a particularly favorable frame of mind but Edward did not succeed in drawing out the advice he hoped for. At least reasoned Edward he knew of my intention and if he considered it a violation of confidence he would have said as much. Construing the financier s silence to mean at least not a prohibition Edward went to his Sunday-school teacher who was a member
