The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals by Daniel R. Solin

PART ONE 
Become a 
Smart Investor: 
Change Your 
Investment 
Life Forever

Chapter 1 
An Unbelievable 
Chimp Story 
The investor's chief problem-and even his worst enemy-

is likely to be himself 
-Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor 
There is a chimpanzee in a remote region of Sierra Leone that 
routinely performs open-heart surgery. His success rate is 
higher-and his mortality rate lower-than many of the finest 
heart surgeons in the world. 
Okay, I made that up. 
But, if you read that report in the newspaper, you would 
think that either 
1. that chimp is really extraordinary; or 
2. those heart surgeons are not very good. 
If the story were true, and you needed a heart operation, 
you might seek out the chimp and avoid the heart surgeons. 
The Financial Times of London annually runs a contest, 
pitting a neophyte investor against market analysts. In 2002, 

The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read: The Simple, Stress-Free Way to Reach Your Investment Goals by Daniel R. Solin