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Jim Slater trained as a Chartered Accountant but first became well-known for writing an investment column in The Sunday Telegraph under the nom-de-plume 'Capitalist' before starting Slater Walker in 1964. After his high-profile days in the City, Jim produced his autobiography and wrote many children's books and investment books including the best-selling The Zulu Principle. He devised Company ... Read more on Jim Slater
"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." - Lord Hanson
"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." - Sir James Goldsmith
"Jim Slater was, for a time, the single most powerful influence on the business scene. Twenty years on, he has refined, honed and distilled his investment thoughts into a book that is vintage Slater: innovative, imaginative, original and fresh with sophisticated investment methods made to seem simple and glaringly obvious - if only you'd thought of them before." - Ivan Fallon, Sunday Times
Praise for the original edition
"The writing is simple and easy - and fun - to read. This doesn't mean that Slater has backed away from writing a book that is meant to beat the investment professionals at their own game. Few books are equally well suited in helping a prospective young investor raise his game." - Mats Larsson, InvestingByTheBooks
"Jim Slater's book is very readable, alive and fascinating. For anyone seriously interested in investment, it is essential reading. I recommend it strongly." - Lord Hanson
"When I was making my run from being a small business man to something larger, Jim Slater dominated the City. Somehow or other he was involved in virtually every major deal. He rode the waves with unprecedented skill, imagination and charisma. No wonder this book is an essential building block for understanding investment." - Sir James Goldsmith
"Jim Slater was, for a time, the single most powerful influence on the business scene. Twenty years on, he has refined, honed and distilled his investment thoughts into a book that is vintage Slater: innovative, imaginative, original and fresh with sophisticated investment methods made to seem simple and glaringly obvious - if only you'd thought of them before." - Ivan Fallon, Sunday Times
Praise for the original edition
"The writing is simple and easy - and fun - to read. This doesn't mean that Slater has backed away from writing a book that is meant to beat the investment professionals at their own game. Few books are equally well suited in helping a prospective young investor raise his game." - Mats Larsson, InvestingByTheBooks
Stockopedia
?Investment is the art of the specific and selection is far more important than timing.?
Of the stalwarts of stock market investing, Jim Slater?s enduring appeal to UK private investors perhaps ...
The Motley Fool
"Jim Slater is one of the UK?s best known and successful investors. Find out more about his stock market strategy when he talks to David Kuo and Maynard Paton in this week?s Money talk podcast."
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Thetimes.co.uk
The Zulu Principle is number five in The Times' Ten books for the aspiring investor4th December 2010
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Investorschronicle.co.uk
Jim Slater: what I would buy nowInvestors Chronicle12th March 2009
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Fool.co.uk
Money Talk Podcast: What Jim Slater Is Buying Now- Jim Slater talks to David Kuo and Maynard Paton in Motley Fool's Money talk podcast20th February 2009
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The Times
Written by the late Jim Slater, the well-known investor of the 1960s and 1970s, and recently updated, it shares some of the secrets of his success.
Justin Urquhart Stewart of Seven Investment ...
Interactive Investor
Growth at a reasonable price (GARP) investing was made famous by a fund manager called Peter Lynch. He produced stunning returns while running the Magellan fund for Fidelity Investments (he later ...
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