Get Smarter by Seymour Schulich – A Must Read book

Get Smarter by Seymour Schulich is a business book full of life and business lessons from business and non-business perspectives. Seymour Schulich is a self-made Canadian billionaire and a great philanthropist. So far, he has donated over $200 million dollar to various educational and non-educational organizations. This is a book you must read and its money well spent – if you are buying this book.

Schulich has taken a very laid-back approach to describe his thoughts and you will never be bored reading this book. I will list some of my favourite chapters here:

• Money’s Value Falls 90 Per Cent Every Thirty Years
• There’s No Such Thing As Overnight Success
• Never Envy the Rich Man or Any Person
• China
• Spending Money

Get Smarter has 49 chapters in total. In appendix, Schulich describes his top ten movies, his trip to the Arab World and a reading list. Let me end this post by describing a quote by author’s which basically spells out the essence of personal finance teaching – “I have a 12-year-old car, a 35-year-old house and the same wife,”