Soul in the Game
The Art of a Meaningful Life
Harriman House, 2022
Soul in the Game is a book of inspiring stories and hardwon lessons on how to live a meaningful life, crafted by investor and writer Vitaliy Katsenelson. Drawing from the lives of classical composers, ancient Stoics, and contemporary thinkers, Katsenelson weaves together a tapestry of practical wisdom that has helped him overcome his greatest challenges: in work, family, identity, health – and in dealing with success, failure, and more.
Part autobiography, part philosophy, part creativity manual, Soul in the Game is a unique and vulnerable exploration of what works, and what doesn’t, in the attempt to shape a fulfilling and happy life.
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“A fascinating, often amusing, occasionally jarring journey – just like life itself. Vitaliy Katsenelson’s Soul in the Game is one of those much-needed reminders that although we have no control over when we’re born or when we’ll die, we are the architects of how we live.“
General Stanley McChrystal
Active Value Investing
Making Money in Range-Bound Markets
Willey, 2009
What started out as a book chapter ended up as a technical book with 75 tables and charts. This is an investor’s guide to active value investment, with some humor sprinkled in. It was digested for the general public in the Little Book that came out in 2010.
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“The new Benjamin Graham is Vitaliy N. Katsenelson. I highly recommend Katsenelson’s book, Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets. I like to think old Ben Graham would have recommend it, too..”
Forbes
The Little Book of Sideways Markets
How to Make Money in Markets that Go Nowhere
Willey, 2010
The Little Book of Sideways Markets isn’t just a simplified version of “Active Value Investing.” Published 3 years after its predecessor, The Little Book also benefited from Vitaliy’s experience in explaining its concepts in hundreds of interviews and dozens of presentations. The result is a more polished explanation of the material, geared to the layman.
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“It’s hard to talk clearly about investing and make sense to ordinary readers at the same time. Katsenelson gives a lucid explanation of today’s markets with sound advice about how to make money while avoiding the traps that the market sets for exuberant bulls and frightened bears alike”
Thomas G. Donlan, Barron’s
