Wall Street is a funny business. All you have is your reputation. Taint it and someone else will fill your shoes. Longevity comes from maintaining that reputation.

Ask Jack Grubman, the All-Star telecom analyst from Salomon Smith Barney; uber-banker Frank Quattrone at CS First Boston; Morgan Stanley's Mary "Queen of the Net" Meeker; or Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget.

Well, they probably won't tell you anything. But have I got some great stories for you.

Successful hedge fund manager Andy Kessler looks back on his years as an analyst on Wall Street and offers this cautionary tale of the intoxicating forces loose in the world of finance that overwhelmed sober analysis.

Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker, The New New Thing
A deliciously naughty new book... I finished it in a gulp, perfectly astonished."

Rich Karlgaard, Publisher, Forbes Magazine, March 2003
This book is gripping, like watching the Zapruder film versus reading the Warren report, I couldn't put it down.

CBS Marketwatch, Bambi Francisco
A fun read. Andy Kessler makes use of his pen, wit and cynical outlook.

CNBC, James Cramer, Kudlow & Cramer
This book is a hoot.

Robert Teitelman, The Daily Deal, April 4, 2003
Now arrives a fascinating little testimony from Andy Kessler...breezy, Wall Street-y style. He can be quite funny.

Bambi Francisco, CBS MarketWatch, March 11, 2003
It's funny and brings characters to life. Andy Kessler makes use of his pen, wit and cynical outlook.

FierceFinance April 23, 2003
"Fascinating book full of biting humor and cynicism that's informed by firsthand experiences in a crazy industry."

Adam Lashinsky, Fortune - CNN/Money April 23, 2003
"A scathing critique of everything wrong with Wall Street ... and what's wrong with a few of the critics as well.

Browse Wall Street Meat by Andy Kessler Inside

Wall Street Meat:
My Narrow Escape from the Stock Market Grinder
By Andy Kessler

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Collins Business (January 6, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060592141
ISBN-13: 978-0060592141

About the Author:

After turning $100 million into $1 billion riding the technology wave of the late 1990s, Andy Kessler recounted his experiences on Wall Street and in the trenches of the hedge fund industry in the books Wall Street Meat and Running Money (and its companion volume, How We Got Here).

Though he has retired from actively managing other people's money, he remains a passionate and curious investor. Unable to keep his many opinions to himself, he contributes to the Wall Street Journal, Wired, and lots of Web sites on a variety of Wall Street and technology-related topics, and is often seen on CNBC, FOX, and CNN. He lives in Silicon Valley like all the other tech guys. (Amazon.com)

About Andy Kessler:

Andy Kessler (born 1958) is an author of books on business, technology, and the health field and has also contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Forbes, The Weekly Standard, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Spectator. He was Co-founder and President of Velocity Capital Management, where he famously turned US$100 million into US$1 billion between 1996 and 2001.

From 1979 to 1984, Kessler worked for AT&T Bell Labs as a chip designer and programmer. In 1985, he joined Paine Webber in New York as an analyst of the electronics and semiconductor industry. In 1989, Andy Kessler joined Morgan Stanley as a semiconductor analyst before moving to San Francisco in 1993. There he worked for Unterberg Harris as an investor. Currently he lives in California with his wife and four sons.

From January to March of 2003, Kessler wrote and successfully self-published a book, Wall Street Meat: My Narrow Escape From the Stock Market Grinder, about working with Jack Grubman, Frank Quattrone, and Mary Meeker, after hearing that traditional publishing houses would take over a year to publish it.

Among his many other writings, in an April 26, 2007 guest column in The New York Times, entitled "Trust Me", Kessler wrote in part: "There are plenty of things I don’t trust – like Wikipedia. I’ve watched my 15-year-old son and his friends take turns editing the page for the animated film 'Land Before Time,' flipping the gender of the character Littlefoot from he to she and back." (Wikipedia.org)

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