Hey Kid!: Wanna Own Great American Businesses? - Paperback

Keogh, Patrick J.: - Patrick J. Keogh was born, raised, and educated in the Bronx section of New York City. His parents, Mom and Pop, were immigrants. They arrived in the United States separately, but on the same day, in the middle of the Great Depression. The Depression was the one time in U.S. history when more folks left our country than arrived. Those people had given up on the United States. Bad mistake. Mom and Pop knew the U.S. was the place to live, work, prosper, and create their family. Mom and Pop made a big investment in the United States, but they never owned a stock, a business, or bought a house. They didn't come here with much of an education, but they insisted that their children get an education. All their children went on to become business owners, and they all do very well. This book is about what one of their sons, Patrick, learned about investing in the U.S. His Mom and Pop made the first big investment in the U.S. by leaving their family behind to create their future here. Patrick built on their lesson and invested in the United States, too, by buying great American businesses. Patrick made lots of mistakes in his investing experience. He thinks he knows how to successfully invest now, and this book is about the lessons he learned along the way. He taught them to his children, Matt and Erin. He and his children are teaching those lessons to his grandchildren, Brianna, Victor, and Finn. This book is about those lessons. On January 1, 2021, Matt and Erin jointly took over managing the family's businesses, applying the lessons learned in this book and Make Your Family Rich: Why to Replace Retirement Planning with Succession Planning.