{"id":2116343,"date":"2019-11-09T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T06:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=2116343"},"modified":"2019-11-09T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T06:06:50","slug":"book-review-what-it-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2019\/11\/09\/book-review-what-it-takes\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: What It Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence<\/em> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/What-Takes-Lessons-Pursuit-Excellence-ebook\/dp\/B07TT82PDY\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>,) is Steve Schwarzman&#8217;s biography. He is the founder of The Blackstone Group (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"$BX (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/finviz.com\/quote.ashx?t=BX\" target=\"_blank\">$BX<\/a>,) a $60 Billion enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, the book is not about private equity. It is about whatever Steve decided to share about himself to a wide audience. So, if you were looking for investing gems, then you would to sourly disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have excerpted the interesting bits on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evernote.com\/shard\/s734\/sh\/ee3bffe1-96cd-4e4a-a439-37e6b5d30046\/4113f6ae1ba1f92b5a6f12e0e462fd64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Evernote (opens in a new tab)\">Evernote<\/a>. You can skip the book and read that instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommendation: Avoid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence (Amazon,) is Steve Schwarzman&#8217;s biography. He is the founder of The Blackstone Group ($BX,) a $60 Billion enterprise. Sadly, the book is not about private equity. It is about whatever Steve decided to share about himself to a wide audience. So, if you were looking for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2093173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4023],"tags":[3751,3761],"class_list":["post-2116343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-book","tag-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}