Investing Quips & Tips for the Absolute Beginner: A collection of brief insights into the curious pursuit of investing for fun and profit

This is essentially a short book of humorous investing anecdotes, dryly executed quips, funny tips, hilarious one-liners, and a number of quite amusing quotes, bundled together in one pithy publication, one full of pith and moment. It is a short speculative piece of writing written as viewed specifically from the traditional humorist’s point of view, intended as much to amuse its reader about the topic of investing as to enlighten or elucidate him. However, despite being often quite humorous in content and intention, the various entries in this book are an interesting read, that is if read with a pinch of salt to go with them, and they do in some ways provide serious food for thought, if not a staple diet. This is all that is intended from the publication of this humorous slant on the novel but interesting pursuit of investing for fun and profit.

The first part of the book, placed centrally, like a prized plum on a pie chart, at the beginning of this work of "pure investing whimsy" is a short satirical sketch on certain "guidelines for investing". This short list of brief aphoristic advice is titled, The Golden Aperçus of Investment, and is comprised of 183 numbered sentences, or short paragraphs. This novel piece of writing takes a fairly humorous look at investing from the viewpoint of the averagely intelligent investing layman, and is introduced with a fairly lengthy introduction. As an added bonus, the introduction itself also goes a fair way to excusing the writing of the list as a serious addition to investing literature in the first place, although some might say not far enough.

The second part, or mid-section, is basically padded out with a small number of humorous quotes, amusing sayings, quips and one-liners, mainly on the subject of investing and the stock market. (All, by the way, are intended to be funny, if not funny ha-ha at least funny ho-ho, and especially for Christmas). This collection, numbering around 500 individual entries, is simply intended to brighten a reader’s day a little, or at least bring a smile of recognition at the age-old humour behind them. This is all that is intended by collecting these various entries here under one banner, nothing more, nothing less. Although some of them, nonetheless, can still be remarkably elucidating to an open mind, if the right intellectual filters are used on it.

The third part, or latter piece (at the end), which is perhaps written more as a humorously contemplative afterthought than anything else, is comprised of a brief codicil or addenda to the main theme (which, actually, is investing, which inspired it). Ideally, it is intended as nothing more than a mildly "tongue-in-cheek" observation on the nature of checklists and their uses, and so, logically speaking, there cannot be much harm in it. It is made up of 37 numbered aphoristic sentences with a decided humorous slant to them, and so need not be taken seriously at all. That is, unless they are, in which case they could prove quite informative to any serious investor, perhaps one who is provisionally prepared to forgive their decidedly humorous slant and come to terms with his own humorous limitations, so to speak.