I can think of four great men who has significantly influenced my life.

The first was the man who broke the Bank of England, George Soros. I first become interested in him following the Asian Crisis in 1997 when I was still in primary school, when the media was characterizing him as an evil speculator. I was very curious that how a single person can be so powerful to be blamed for a pandemic event. So I started to follow and research about him for many years afterwards and was fascinated by how he looked at the world. George Soros is also one of the first causes that made become interested in the financial market and philosophy. Interestingly, one of the most exciting things happened during my university years was taking several philosophy papers taught by a professor who studied under the same professor as George Soros.

The second person is Warren Buffet. I first knew about him during high school but only become interested in value investing when I was in the university. Before that I trade mainly by technical indicators and speculating on economic conditions. Buffet is like the opposite of Soros to me and sort of completed my view on financial analysis. Warren Buffet along with Benjamin Graham gave me the first fundamental analysis framework of equity and is still a core part of my investment framework.

The third person is J. P. Morgan. J. P. Morgan is the role model of an ideal banker in my mind. My favorite story about him is the role he played after the Great Depression to stabilize the market and economy while there was no Federal Reserve System in place as today. J. P. Morgan was surely a businessman who cared most about himself and his business, but I respect that he was not shortsighted and recognized that he was part of the greater economy and would prosper and fall with it in the long-term.

Finally, Steve Jobs of Apple Inc., from whom I witnessed how visions pushed times forward and how a great person challenged the status quo. Also, because of him I became interested in early-stage financing and novel financing experiments such as crowd-funding.