Dave Liu - The Way of the Wall Street Warrior

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2 Title Page THE WAY of the WALL STREET WARRIOR CONQUER THE CORPORATE GAME USING TIPS, TRICKS, AND SMARTCUTS DAVE LIU WITH ADAM SNYDER

3 Copyright

4 Dedication

5 Acknowledgments

6 About the Author

7 Introduction: Game On Unrig Your Mind Built with Sweat, Backed by Science Lessons from the Elephant Boy Beat C-3PO Notes

8 PART 1: Get in the Game CHAPTER 1: Get Primed for Entry-Level Cattle Calls Scrub Those Leprotic Calluses The TMZ Test Note CHAPTER 2: Don't Fight the Tape Diligence to Death Be a Troll CHAPTER 3: Be the Holy Trinity of Deals Make Me Give a Damn Watch the Trapdoors The Rule of Three Go Out with a Bang Notes CHAPTER 4: Failure as Fertilizer Be Unus CHAPTER 5: Strut Like a Peacock Find the Greater Fool Wear Some Damn Socks Master Half-Truths Customize; Don't Compromise Know Oliver Stone from Oliver Twist Notes CHAPTER 6: Ace the Personal Bake-Off Show Time! Super Saturday The Inquisition Notes CHAPTER 7: Grownups Ask for Directions Map Your Way to Greatness Swallow the Red Pill Banking for Dumbos Notes

9 PART 2: Play to Win CHAPTER 8: Your Career Isn't Just a Job; It's an Adventure Be Water Who Moved My Caviar? Slaving and Hazing and Crazing Always Be Learning (ABL) so You Can Always Be Closing (ABC) Notes CHAPTER 9: People Are Irrational Get with the Program Being a Smart Dummy Notes CHAPTER 10: Office Politics Start Kissing Babies Be a Street Dog To What End? Have a Shtick Notes CHAPTER 11: Be a Stork, Not a Pigeon Mind Your P's and Q's Too Smart for Your Own Good Mute That Crap Welcome to 7-Eleven Notes CHAPTER 12: Quack Like a Duck Speak the Lingo Tap the Same Wavelength Master the Unspoken CHAPTER 13: Read the Room, Not the Prospectus Read Like an Open Book Use What God Gave You Check Out That Body Practice Makes Perfect Note CHAPTER 14: Don't Walk Around Blind Without a Cane But I'm an Ostrich Find Buried Treasure What Could Possibly Go Wrong? My Boss, the Bat Notes CHAPTER 15: Turn Liabilities into Assets Houston, Do We Really Have a Problem? Appearances Are Deceiving Unleash Your Superhero Word to My Peeps Notes CHAPTER 16: Laziness as a Virtue Smartcutter Extraordinaire CHAPTER 17: The Minion-Circle Your Master's Master Master the Circle Find Your Yoda The Invisible Man Gets Fired OK, Read the Prospectus Note CHAPTER 18: Get the Last Word and Drop the Mic Nobel Prize–Winning Shit Just the Two of Us Deliver Shit Sandwiches in Person If It Ain't Wrote, It Ain't True Talk to Yourself Note CHAPTER 19: Get Paid Like a Player Herded Like Cattle Prep Your Negotiation Win the Zero-Sum Game So How Much Are You Worth? Millionaire Paupers Tap the Whisper Wire Go Shop Yourself Lean on Yoda Let the Games Begin! Be a Long-Term Short-Timer On Your Mark, Get Set, GO! All Money Is Money My Super-Secret Negotiating Strategy The Post-Mortem Notes CHAPTER 20: Manage Your Way out of a Paper Bag Find Those Ticks Decoy Your Way into Heaven Let Them Eat Cake Eliza Effing Doolittles It's a Tragedy … of the Commons You're Yoda Now Better Than Sex Don't Be a B-Player Escape from Alcatraz Guanxi, Baby! Notes

10 PART 3: Winning Time CHAPTER 21: Win the Game of Thrones Prepare for Battle Royale Specialize Your Way to Nirvana Even Rocket Ships Need Janitors Feed the Money Machine Keep Your Head on a Swivel Making My Own Destiny They Don't Call It the Art of War for Nothing CHAPTER 22: Check Yourself at the Door CHAPTER 23: Mastering Your Sermon on the Mount Eye on the Prize Note CHAPTER 24: Congrats, You've Arrived Becoming a BSD Perks, Perks, and More Perks No Rest for the Weary Trust Is the Coin of the Realm Selling in a Game of Inches Amateurs Negotiate Price; Pros Negotiate Terms A Different Kind of Matrix Practice, Practice, Practice Keep That Thinking Cap On Committed Enough to Be Committed Note

11 PART 4: The Score CHAPTER 25: Make a Deal with the Devil What Would Christian Bale Do? The Joneses Run to Mommy Notes CHAPTER 26: Parlay Your Way to Success Become a Kardashian Weapon of Mass Destruction Have You Arrived? Notes CHAPTER 27: Money Can Buy Happiness Don't Be a Creep When Is Enough, Enough? Pursuing Happiness Notes CHAPTER 28: Writing Checks Your Body Can't Cash Resident of Fat City Spending Time in All the Wrong Places The Work–Life Tradeoff Sham Default Yourself Notes CHAPTER 29: It's Quitting Time Why We Stay The Talk How to Leave Notes CHAPTER 30: The Afterlife Be a Hero

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13 Glossary

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page THE WAY of the WALL STREET WARRIOR CONQUER THE CORPORATE GAME USING TIPS, TRICKS, AND SMARTCUTS DAVE LIU WITH ADAM SNYDER

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Acknowledgments

7 About the Author

8 Introduction: Game On

9 Begin Reading

10 Conclusion

11 Glossary

12 Index

13 End User License Agreement

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