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Yuval Shahar: If you invest your money, odds are good that you know who Steve Forbes is and you also know that he has been publishing a successful financial magazine appropriately titles Forbes

Topic: Business Start-upPublished January 9, 2012

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Studying the stories of past investors can teach you important financial principles. If you want to be successful with your financial investing, it is important to know your history. Principles do not change. A principle is a basic truth, law or perception and knowing and understanding the principles of financial investing can save you a lot of stress and help you protect your investments.

Richard Phalon has been a contributing editor to Forbes since 1980. Before that, he spent his time at the New York Times covering personal finance, Wall Street, urban affairs, and politics. If you invest your money, odds are good that you know who Steve Forbes is and you also know that he has been publishing a successful financial magazine appropriately titles Forbes.  â€¨â€¨Phalon has authored a book which has been made into an audiobook titled Forbes Greatest Investing Stories which is a great collection of well known investors and how their stories can help with dealing with the turbulent markets of the twenty first century.

In this audiobook, Phalon illustrates past investors like Benjamin Graham and T. Rowe Price's experience can relate to the new world of the Internet. These stories demonstrate how you can spot value and profit from the growth of this rewarding new median.

Let the time-tested measures of seers like Benjamin Graham and T. Rowe Price, adapted to the world of the Internet, it will show you how to spot value at a discount and profit from growth at its growth most rewarding. This audiobook is packed with investing lessons, and wisdom that can give you the insight you need to give you the edge with your financial investing.

Forbes Greatest Investing Stories also does a great job in showing how the skill and determination of trailblazing women like Hetty Green and Muriel F. Siebert proved that men have no monopoly on what it takes to win on Wall Street.

The audiobooks is 10 hours in length so you know it is full of detail and inspirational stories of these financial trailblazers. Enjoying and learning from this book as an audiobook is a great way to maximize your time. 

You can learn while you work around the house or office, and they make commuting a breeze. Audiobooks are great for multitaskers. If you are ready to listen to this audiobook yourself and learn why you should know your history as a financial investor, the best place to find it is by downloading the audiobooks off of the net.rnRead more about investing, entrepreneur stories and angel investing.rnYuval Shahar co-founded PentaCom in 1998 ( recently acquired by Cisco) and has created one of the world's first web appliances, leading to the creation of Infogear Inc. in 1995 (recently also acquired by Cisco). Yuval Shahar held senior positions at both National Semiconductor Corporation and Motorola, where he worked on data and voice communications products and protocols. Prior to joining VocalTec, Shahar worked for developing fax, data and voice communications protocols and products. Mr. Yuval Shahar is a seasoned entrepreneur and angel investor involved as a co-founder, Chairman or Board member in a variety of companies. Yuval is a highly respected executive with an extensive track record in establishing, developing and selling high tech companies. He started his career at Motorola and National Semiconductors in a variety of technology and software development and management roles. Yuval Shahar has been a Director of XConnect Global Networks Limited since November 2009.

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