What Influenced You Most as a Stock Operator?

Mason: I got interested in stocks at a fairly, a fairly young age. Adam Smith's The Money Game was probably the stuff that influenced me the most. Reminiscence of a stock operator is something that up until a couple of years got read every year because it's such a great lesson in psychology and how markets behave. Two books that have influenced my thinking greatly are William James' "The Shopanise" and Tom Nagle's "Mind and Cosmos"