Do You Want To Make Money Or Would You Rather Fool Around ? - Hardcover

John D. Spooner is the only investment advisor/novelist in America. His bestselling nonfiction includes Confessions of a Stockbroker, Smart People, and Sex and Money. His work has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Playboy, The Boston Globe, and many other publications, including Boston magazine, where he is currently the Financial Editor. A Senior Vice President of Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Mr. Spooner has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs including Wall Street Week. He watches over assets in excess of 500 million for clients all over the world through his Smart People management business. A graduate of Harvard, he lives in Boston, MA.

"Best common-sense investment advisor since Peter Lynch." -- Tom Stemberg, Chairman of Staples

"Spooner is a stockbroker with a gift of gab...diverting reading for both those enthralled by the stock market and those appalled by it." -- New York Times

"Spooner, known nationally as the author of Smart People, Sex and Money, and Confessions of a Stockbroker, is a phenomenon, as much as psychologist and futurist as an investment advisor." -- Inc. Magazine

"Judging a book by its cover... can really pay off." -- The Chicago Tribune

Charming and engaging. ". His tone is charming and engaging...Spooner's book is remi niscent of the 1980s bestseller, 'All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.' These are great anecdotes." -- USA Today

Clarifies, not mystifies. John Spooner writes to clarify - not mystify. A refreshing call for common sense investing. -- Franklin W. Hobbs, Chairman Walburg Dillon Read

Clever and witty!John Spooner is intelligent, clever and witty, and unique in tha t he not only writes with style about making money, but he actually mak es money for his clients. -- Strauss Zelnick, President and CEO of BMG Entertainment

Devilishly funny insights. John Spooner's devilishly funny insights into greed, fear and in vesting in the stock market are right on target. His book is therefore not only entertaining but enormously valuable reading for any sensible investor. -- John Berendt, Author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Now Spooner has summer up his distinctive approach to personal investing in a little book called "Do You Want To Make Money Or Would You Rather Fool Around?" It offers very different counsel from the myriad accounts of fabulous wealth creation in Silicon Valley that are now tumbling off the presses.... Instead, it is a deep and cheerful probing of the psychology of personal investing from the point of view of someone who helps manage half a billion dollars of other people's money. -- David Warsh, Boston Globe, October 19, 1999

Playboy calls him "Playboy's wizard broker..." -- Playboy Magazine