Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: How I learned to read -- and trade stocks -- in prison
柯蒂斯“华尔街”卡罗尔: 我在监狱学会阅读和交易股票
Curtis “Wall Street” Carroll overcame poverty, illiteracy, incarceration and a lack of outside support to become a stock investor, creator and teacher of his own financial literacy philosophy. Full bio
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所以我就跑。
and I jumped on top of a fence.
两毛五硬币的重量
in my book bag
was standing on top of me,
那个保安站在我头顶,
去偷点能背得动的东西!”
steal something you can carry."
into the custody of my mother,
"How'd you get caught?"
“你怎么被抓住了?”
把所有硬币都拿走啊。”
to take all the quarters."
我能怎么办? ”
What am I supposed to do?"
他带我去偷另一个游戏机。
to burglarize another arcade game.
of my immediate family
of living with family, friends,
领救济食品的队伍和施粥场。
in breadlines and soup kitchens.
or the good guy.
that I was told that I had potential
that I could be a lawyer,
我不会读,不会写也不会拼。
I couldn't read, write or spell.
犯罪就是我的人生道路。
crime was my way to go.
about this robbery that we could do.
financial nation in the world,
stand in line at a blood bank
just to try to feed her kids.
只是为了让她的孩子有饭吃。
on her arms to day to show for that.
那段时间留下的针孔疤痕。
来换取他们想要的东西,
were doing to take what they wanted,
the robbers, the blood bank.
really did rule the world,
for robbery and murder
比在外面街上更有权威,
rule more than they did on the streets,
the sports page of the newspaper
picked up the business section.
年轻人,你选股票?”
"Hey youngster, you pick stocks?"
where white folks keep all their money."
that I saw a glimpse of hope,
of what stocks were,
to hide my illiteracy
在掠食者中间捕食,
prey among predators,
I'd ever done in my life.
time of my life,
I had ever dreamed of:
everything I could get my hands on:
能拿到的所有东西都要去读:
street signs, everything.
and know how to spell.
如何阅读和如何拼写了。
"Man, what you eating?"
我说,“N-O,不。”
I said, "N-O. No."
for the first time in my life read.
from it was amazing.
of the newspaper.
financially manage money and invest,
responsibility for my own actions.
非常复杂的环境中长大,
in a very complex environment,
我也确实是这样做的。
for that, and I did.
教给犯人如何通过在监狱工作
that could teach incarcerated men
through prison employments.
would provide transferrable tools
将提供可移用的工具,
用来管理金钱的工具,
when we reenter society,
who didn't commit crimes.
over 60 percent of NBA players
derive from financial issues.
that people worked their whole lives,
homes and material stuff
going to help incarcerated individuals
to meet those on the path
犯罪道路上的那些人,
I now cared about my community.
我居然关心我的社区了啊。
I cared about my community.
and the lower class in our society
of the American population
driven by financial prosperity?
that most people can't manage.
than any other issue.
Department of Corrections,
with money-related crimes:
fraud, larceny, distortion --
200 dollars gate money and told,
别惹麻烦,别再来监狱了。”
Don't come back to prison."
or long-term financial plan,
或长期的财务计划,
that led him to prison in the first place?
already chose for him, probably.
Emotional Literacy.
your emotional decisions
to personal finance:
by allowing your money to work for you
而不是你为钱工作。
before we reenter society.
without these life skills.
can invest and manage money
你需要、拥有或想要多少钱,
you need, have or want better than you,
ladies and gentlemen.
of a proper lifestyle.
可以变成一名纳税人,
can become a taxpaying citizen,
taxpaying citizen can remain one.
继续做好一名纳税人。
连结我们能影响的人们:
between those people who we influence:
犯罪与金钱分不开的年轻人。
that crime and money are related.
that you've been out there hearing.
of what's been crippling our society
做一个更好的生活管理者。
to be better life managers.
and easy to use curriculum
and emotional literacy really is.
in the audience and you said,
and I don't buy it,"
你每一次情绪化会损失多少钱。
it costs you every time you get emotional.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll - Financial literacy advocateCurtis “Wall Street” Carroll overcame poverty, illiteracy, incarceration and a lack of outside support to become a stock investor, creator and teacher of his own financial literacy philosophy.
Why you should listen
The media calls Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll the "Oracle of San Quentin" for his stock picking prowess and ability to translate financial information into simple language for his students.
Carroll grew up in Oakland, California surrounded by poverty. In 1996, at 17 years old, he committed a robbery where a man was killed. He turned himself in and ended up an illiterate teenager in prison with a 54-to-life sentence. While in prison, the stock market captured his attention, but due to his illiteracy he couldn't learn more about it. Motivating by the lure of financial gaining, he taught himself how to read at 20-21 years old, and then he started studying the stock market. Carroll's role models changed from drug dealers and sports figures to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He wanted others to learn this new way of making money.
When Carroll arrived at San Quentin in 2012, he met Troy Williams, who helped him start the Financial Literacy Program. Together they created the philosophy F.E.E.L (Financial Empowerment Emotional Literacy) that teaches people to recognize how their emotions affect their financial decision, and how to separate the two.
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