tailieunhanh - beyond true stories a high intermediate reader phần 8

Nó sẽ mất một thời gian cho anh ta để kéo mình lại với nhau. C. Ông Brown: Tôi nghĩ rằng tôi đang kéo bản thân mình cùng nhau. D. Tim: Tôi đang cố gắng để kéo bản thân mình lại với nhau. 155. | 6 Anne s investment sưategy was simple. First she didn t put all her eggs in one basket she ultimately invested in 100 companies not just in one or two. Second she invested only in leading companies whose products she understood. Third she almost never sold stocks. When the value of her stocks fell she hung on to them convinced they would be worth something in the long run. 7 By 1970 Anne Scheiber had turned her small savings into a stock portfolio worth millions but she certainly didn t live like a millionaire. Her home was the same tiny apartment she rented when she moved to New York furnished with the same tables chairs and lamps she had bought in 1944. Paint was peeling off the walls and dust covered the bookcases. She often skipped meals to save money on food and she walked everywhere to save money on bus fare even when it rained. She never bought a newspaper instead she walked to the library and read the Wall Street Journal there and she rarely bought new clothes. Everywhere she went she wore the same cheap black coat fall winter and spring. Once a niece bought her a new black coat and when Anne found out that it had cost 150 she refused to wear it. Saving and investing money was her obsession. Every penny Anne had she used to buy stocks. 8 The sacrifices Anne made to invest in the stock market were not only material there were social sacrifices too. Her entire world was her investments. She shut out her family and friends and she never had a sweetheart. The only social events Anne attended were stockholders meetings of the companies whose stock she owned. Whenever a stockholders meeting was in New York City Anne Scheiber was there. She would go directly to the CEO of the company and demand answers to her questions just as she had when she was an auditor at the . In the last years of her life Anne left her apartment only to visit her lawyer her stockbroker or to see her stock certificates which were kept in a vault in her stockbroker s offices near Wall