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Feb 3, 2014 · Take These 7 Steps. “In my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough,” began Sam Polk’s recent, riveting New York Times op-ed ...
Aug 4, 2013 · At age 30, Sam Polk walked away from Wall Street, where he was a head trader at one of the world's largest hedge funds. He was more "successful" than he'd thought possible, but he felt empty and unfulfilled. In 2010, Sam quit his job and moved to L.A., where he has since spent his time working with homeless youth, teaching writing to foster ...
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“Three weeks into my first internship on Wall Street I got dumped by this girl I was in love with. I was so devastated that I reached out to someone I would not have normally reached out to, a sort of spiritual teacher who I had met in a couples counseling session with my girlfriend years before. She was this woman who lived in Santa Monica, but sh...
“A couple of years before I left Wall Street I read Taylor Branch’s three-part series on the civil rights movement (‘America in the King Years’). It wasn’t like I suddenly went, ‘Oh my god, Martin Luther King is morally superior to these hedge funds managers.’ I had admired Martin Luther King for a long time, but I came to understand that he had li...
“I think that much in the same way that I had a few experiences on Wall Street that punctuated my new awareness, two documentaries (‘A Place At the Table’ and ‘Forks Over Knives’) punctuated those moments where I really came to see things in a different way. “After I left Wall Street, the three years before I started Groceryships was this arduous t...
“The way Father Greg Boyle (author of Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassionand the founder of the Homeboys Industries youth program) was most helpful was on an inspirational level. He’s a great example of how my heroes have changed over time. Ten years ago my heroes were people like Michael Milken, and Jamie Dimon, and John Paulso...
Jul 11, 2017 · “Part coming-of-age story, part recovery memoir, and part exposé of a rotten, money-drenched Wall Street culture” (Salon), Sam Polk’s unflinching account chronicles his fight to overcome the ghosts of his past—and the radical new way he now defines success.At just thirty years old, Sam Polk was a senior trader for one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, on the verge of making ...
Jul 19, 2016 · Sam Polk. 4.00. 514 ratings73 reviews. “Part coming-of-age story, part recovery memoir, and part exposé of a rotten, money-drenched Wall Street culture” (Salon), Sam Polk’s unflinching account chronicles his fight to overcome the ghosts of his past—and the radical new way he now defines success. At just thirty years old, Sam Polk was a ...
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Jul 12, 2016 · Sam Polk, a former Wall Street superstar who walked away from his $2 million annual bonus and a potential salary of tens of millions each year, can directly trace his "obsessive pursuit of money ...
Jul 11, 2017 · Polk graduated from Columbia University in 2002 with a BA in English and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Designation. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and CNBC.com. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their daughter. For the Love of Money is his first book.
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