Scott Galloway has stormed onto the scene over the past few years with his trademark blend of swearing, crying, and monotone delivery. He speaks with so little affect that his words seem less like opinions than well-proven facts he’s tired of rehashing. He uses profanity freely and generally projects an alpha persona, though he is known to get choked up when talking about his surrogate father figures and the opportunities America gave him.
Galloway has carved out a niche by combining his entrepreneurial charisma with a 1990s liberal sensibility. His new book, The Algebra of Wealth, offers a broader view of what leads to financial security. He breaks it down into an equation: “Wealth = Focus + (Stoicism x Time x Diversification).” Focus means drilling down on your talents (as opposed to your passion), stoicism refers to general character development, and then time and diversification are about effectively investing the spoils of your career. Not exactly ground-breaking, but Galloway isn’t promising to make you rich overnight or offering budget worksheets to get your finances in order.
In The Algebra of Wealth, Scott Galloway pontificates on careers, finance, and living a good life. But ultimately, The Algebra of Wealth is less a finance book than a letter Galloway is writing to his younger self, who was a financially successful but undisciplined young man. That personal element makes for endearing and authentic, though occasionally self-indulgent, prose.
The World According to Galloway
If you’ve seen Galloway’s recent clip on MSNBC or his “scorching”
