David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

When he said, ‘Do you know what an
option is?’ I said, ‘Of course I do, I
know everything, I can do anything for
you.’ Basically by the time we got out of
the taxi, I had his number. He said, ‘Call
me Monday.’ I called him Monday, flew
back to New York Tuesday or
Wednesday, had an interview, and
started working the next Monday. In that
period of time, I read McMillan’s
Options as a Strategic Investment book.
It’s like the Bible of options trading.”
It wasn’t easy, of course, since Cohn
estimates that on a good day, it takes him
six hours to read twenty-two pages.^7 He
buried himself in the book, working his
way through one word at a time,