Philip Bradley Town is an American investor, hedge-fund manager, motivational speaker, and author of two books on financial investment that were New York Times best-sellers. In 1972, after serving nearly 4 years in the US Army, Phil found himself sleeping in a tent in Flagstaff, Arizona and ...more

Philip Bradley Town is an American investor, hedge-fund manager, motivational speaker, and author of two books on financial investment that were New York Times best-sellers. In 1972, after serving nearly 4 years in the US Army, Phil found himself sleeping in a tent in Flagstaff, Arizona and leading whitewater rafting trips down the Colorado River to get by. In 1980, Phil ran one of his rafting expeditions for trustees of the Outward Bound Program. The trip was nearly catastrophic when the boat almost capsized in a rough section of the Colorado River. After Phil got everything back on track and everyone was safe again, one of the men told Phil that he could be doing better than pumping rubber all summer and living on welfare in the off-season. Phil then went on to invest $1,000 of his own, and five years later he had grown it into $1.45 million using the strategy he had been taught.less