The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many: A Unique Concept for Always Making Money in the Stock Market

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Summary: Suprised but very pleased.
Review: A friend gave me this book. When I got a glimpse of the title I thought to myself, "Oh! here's another also ran self help book destined to be archived on the book shelves of America, gathering dust and aging like a vintage wine that will never be uncorked." Boy ! was I wrong. As I scrolled down the pages,I soon realized that this was a well written book and quite revealing as a way to actually make money in the stock market by making the right choices at the right time based on a unique, but proven strategy. Using his concept of the Vital Few Vs. The Trivial Many, George demonstrates the value of watching what the consistent winners do. This information is not usually touted by the media or market experts. While written in the form of an autobiography,the concepts discussed and methods revealed in the book. were explained very clearly and developed chapter by chapter as George takes the reader through his dynamic, personal career, sharing his failures then finally his success and continued prosperity as his revolutionary theories of " the vital few vs. the trivial many, " empower him to consistently be a winner in the stock market. George has written this book with the passion of someone that has " been there, done that". As I read on, I got the impression that he was talking to me as a mentor. I continued to read the manuscript with an appetite for more. I couldn't stop until I was done.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I enjoyed the book. I'm a big fan of George's work on insider trading and believe it to be an invaluable guide for achieving success in the stock market.

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Summary: The Vital Few vs. The Trivial Many
Review: I loved this book. It is written with stories that illustrate the evolution of Mr. Muzea's Vital Few concept. I couldn't put the book down. It was a fast read but full of insights that I will use in the stock market and in life in general. Luckily, I had to sell for personal reasons in 2001. The book's Magic T, which is designed to tell me when to be in the market and when to be out, is exactly what I need to help me get in at the bottom.

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Summary: Quality Endures
Review: I'm a real novice in the financial world, not because of age but simply because I never had money to invest. Then my parents left me with a wonderful portfolio that I didn't know how to manage. I pretty much left it alone and watched it decline during 2002. But luckily for me, I met George Muzea and read his book. His words made me feel that following the stock market did not have to be viewed as a foreboding experience. Reading his book gave me the confidence to become a more knowledgeable investor. But it wasn't only Mr. Muzea's financial advice that gave me that confidence; it was the sense of his integrity that I garnered about him from the personal experiences he shared in his book. He is a successful financial advisor because of who he is as a man. He takes people, life and its many adventures seriously, deferring to how people like me invest their hard earned money. His heart, as well as his financial wisdom, pervades this book.
-Carol Murphy
English teacher
Sage Ridge, School

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Summary: Among the Trivial Many
Review: I'm a real novice in the financial world, not because of age but simply because I never had money to invest. Then my parents left me with a wonderful portfolio that I didn't know how to manage. I pretty much left it alone and watched it decline during 2002. But luckily for me, I met George Muzea and read his book. His words made me feel that following the stock market did not have to be viewed as a foreboding experience. Reading his book gave me the confidence to become a more knowledgeable investor. But it wasn't only Mr. Muzea's financial advice that gave me that confidence; it was the sense of his integrity that I garnered about him from the personal experiences he shared in his book. He is a successful financial advisor because of who he is as a man. He takes people, life and its many adventures seriously, deferring to how people like me invest their hard earned money. His heart, as well as his financial wisdom, pervades this book.
-Carol Murphy
English teacher
Sage Ridge, School

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Summary: Reply to TP
Review: I'm sorry to say you think this was a bad book but I never noticed anything about it being bound poorly. My Step-father wrote this book and he has at least 50 copies at home and they are not poorly bound. I read the book as he was writing it and I found it very informative and interesting. But if you actually went through and read it, which I doubt you did, you would find that it has alot of information about making money in the stock market hidden in his "Personal Anecdotes"

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Summary: Great content & easy to read
Review: I've read dozens of books on investing and this is one of the best I've seen. The content is great and it is easy to follow. I like that there are specific techniques that I can follow - not just hypothetical or dry information. He has and currently does use the techniques he's recommending and he has a good track record doing so. I Highly recommend the book.

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Summary: A good supplement, but short and thus expensive
Review: This is a book written by a fund consultant/manager/owner who profits through the contrarian principle primarily by monitoring/following the stock trading of insiders. Perhaps the author's method is so simple and straightforeward that the book is really short, despite the addition of his autobiography and interesting personal experience, say, his encounter with two persons who quitted their job for full time trading before the burst of 2000 Internet Bubble.

I am obligated to comment it as an interesting read. However, the captioned method is not so practical to common investors who lack the patience/scale to carry on such mode of operation, unless they restrict their scope of monitoring to a limited number of stock, thus drastically reduced the number of opportunities available. So I gave the title of my review as it is. If you have already read many trading books before, you can take it as a supplement. Otherwise, you may spend your $16 more productively on some other investment or trading books.

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Summary: A little simplistic. But worth reading for the masses
Review: This is a concise, intuitive well written book. Building on the premise of the 80/20 rule (that 20% of the people make 80% of the impact in business), Muzea shows how watching what the insiders are doing with their own hard earned dollars versus what they are saying is the key to making money in the market. That, and timing buying and selling decisions to natural cycles in the market, which he also explains. Someone else would have puffed this into a 400 page book with inane charts and other hoopla. This guy says what he has to say in 80 pages and moves on. Based on firsthand experience seeing management insiders in action, the theory is sound.

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Summary: A Real Book on how to make money in stocks
Review: This was a powerful book for me because it goes to the heart of
my purpose in reading about stocks. It tells how to make money in
stocks. It makes it simple---but not easy. It outlines the author's program for managing stock money and explains the basis for its success. That narrows the field to getting the edge
by knowing who to follow--The smart insiders. And when to invest---when the sentiment is euphoric. That requires knowing where to look and how to measure it. That's what's in the book.