Beating the Odds

Eddie Brown's Investing and Life Strategies

By: Eddie Brown, Blair S. Walker

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

Beating the Odds is the improbable, inspiring autobiography of financial guru Eddie C. Brown, one of the nation's top stock pickers and money managers. It details how Brown skillfully kept Brown Capital Management afloat through the dot-com bust, 9/11, and the Great Recession. Born to a 13-year-old unwed mother in the rural South, this African-American investment whiz created a Baltimore-based financial firm that amassed more than $6 billion under management.

Brown delves into the profound heartbreak and disorientation upon the death of his beloved grandmother who was his surrogate mother - and recounts how Brown's moonshine-running Uncle Jake subsequently became the dominant adult figure in Brown's life. His unflinchingly honest, easy-to-listen-to memoir details how intellectual curiosity, abiding self-belief, hard work and divine providence helped Brown earn an electrical engineering degree, become an Army officer, and later a civilian IBM engineer. Listeners will learn of the strife that ensued when Brown quit IBM to earn an MBA, leading to investment jobs that prepared him to start his own money management company in 1983.

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loved it

A great story of someone who too advantage of opportunities that came his way and knew what he wanted n went for it. Much love thanks for sharing your life story.

Excellent

Excellent in general whether you are interested in finance or not. Awesome narration as well.

great story.... but

didn't really like the narrator. would have preferred to listen to a different voice. but message was received.

Inspiring story

This was an inspiring story. I work in the financial industry and desire to leave an impact on my family and my community and this book helped me sift through how I can go about doing that. This is one of those books you don’t listen to once but over and over.