One of my most valuable mentors is someone you've probably never heard of, Chris Weber.
Weber is an autodidactic genius. He’s such a great investor that he's never had a real job. His education came from libraries, where he spends most of his time. He took his teenage lawn-mowing money and then used gold futures to pyramid that grubstake into several million dollars. He got out of the 1970s commodity boom in 1981 when long-term rates hit 15% in the U.S. From there, he had a simple hurdle: he wasn't going to buy anything unless it was virtually certain to beat a guaranteed 15% a year.
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