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Warren Buffet calls out, "(this is) by far the best book on investing ever written."……rest other testimonials are just reiterations. ------------P.S. Not for traders.P.P.S. Don't forget to read Jason Zweig's commentary after each chapter to get the current context. Most of the times, those help to understand the original text much better.
The classic book on investing by the man who taught Warren Buffett. Originally written 50 years ago, and it is still relevant. The same lessons applied to specific industries and companies at the time of the writing have obvious parallels to different industries and companies today.And there are some radical ideas, despite it's age, that fly in the face of "conventional wisdom". The most important example in my opinion was the idea of how much risk you should have in your investments:The "risk"
This is a book that offers down-to-earth, practical advice on investing to a layman audience. Graham's message can be summarized in the last sentence, "to achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks." In particular, Graham introduces the following concepts:1. Value Investing. Before selecting a stock, understand the company, protect yourself against serious losses, and aspire to "adequate" not extraordinary perfo...
Warren Buffett's pick as the greatest investment book of all time, and it really does live up to that review. Some highlights:1) Your main goal should be to not LOSE money; so understand the distinction between 'investing' and 'speculating,' and understand that most so-called investors are actually speculators. Minimize the extent to which you are a speculator. If you go in trying to get rich quick, you'll lose.2) To that end, trailing P/E should be less than 15 and P/E * P/B (tangible) should b...
To be honest, the commentary and footnotes of this book were more useful to me than the original content. The book in its original form is obviously outdated in terms of the specific examples it gives for ways to invest and the different companies it details. However, the commentary by Jason Zweig draws from the fundamental messages behind the book to provide more up-to-date advice on how to invest. Undoubtedly, Benjamin Graham provided the foundation for the commentary with his book, but I pers...
To say that this book is a heavy piece of work is like saying, obesity is not a problem in the US. No wonder Republicans don't talk about this piece of education enough. It took me two months to read this book. At the end of this book, I ended up having a portfolio of an exigent value that was proofed through every piece of advice around the valuing of a stock. It just so happened that I was finishing this book before making any purchases as the stock market was collapsing due to the covid19 sit...
I'd read several books about Benjamin Graham as well as articles by him in the past, but this was my first foray into reading a book authored by him. It's definitely a great primer into the world of value investing and not only outlines its tenets but also their rationale. Several historical examples are used to illustrate his points.One criticism: for all the words spent on intrinic value, no clear cut way is proposed for its calculation, however. Several proxies (i.e. book value, fair value, e...
If you read investing books or magazines, you've undoubtedly heard of Benjamin Graham. He's considered the father of value investing, and Warren Buffett is one of his disciples. In fact, The Oracle of Omaha called this book "the best book about investing ever written."I have to disagree with Buffett on this one, but that's because I'm a very different type of investor than Buffett. I'm a Boglehead (follower of Vanguard founder John Bogle), so I invest through broadly diversified, passive index f...
I had high expectations from the book, which it failed to meet. But then, this book is too old to have a lot of relevance now.The essence is that an intelligent investor is one who doesn’t think of this as gambling. Do solid fundamental, qualitative analysis rather than looking at charts. Know what the company stands for. And you can’t beat the market. Maybe if you know nothing about the stock market, then this book is for you to get an idea of what you are getting into and what to expect. The f...
Intelligent Investor by many is considered to be the best book on value investing that you will ever read. The book is written by Benjamin Graham who was Warren Buffett’s lecturer at Columbia University. Warren Buffett, one of the greatest investors of all time, personally endorses it and says that this is, by far, the best book on investing. He says that stock is an ownership interest in a company and is something completely opposite to speculation, day trading or anything like that.At the begi...
Wow ... This book is amazing. It is definitely a must read for investors in stock markets. It is not only a "book", it is a "reference".The book shows enormous efforts from GRAHAM; the author, through the editions of this book.The comments by ZWEIG are extremely beneficial and was up to the standard of the original text using updated info and statistics beyond GRAHAM's times. The piece written by BUFFET at the end of the book is such a wonderful one and - nearly - summarizes the whole idea of th...
Benjamin Graham’s last line in The Intelligent Investor sums up the entire book in his trade-mark common-sense way: “ To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.”First published in 1949, this version that I read was re-published in 2005 with a forward written by John Bogle who started Vangard Mutual Fund. Bogle’s forward serves as a very good summary of The Intelligent Investor, highlighting key points clearl...
I would give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.As the fact that I left this book in the middle few month ago, and now picked it and finished the remaining portion of the book, so it was that I didn't enjoy the book, it was a bit boring, maybe I started this book without having any prior knowledge on the investing and stock market, but I would say that was the main reason that I wanted to read this book, to get myself familiar with the world of investing and stocks. Except few information, I don't find any...
OK, the recent stock market drops scared me. I got hit by the drops in 99 and said I would never let it happen again. This time I had what I thought would be value stocks. The problem was I didn't know if I should sell or hold the stocks. So for $8 I bought a used copy of Ben Graham's book. I stopped reading my other book and read this book like crazy. It was the best $8 ever spent. It teaches you some basics about the behavior of the market and it teaches you to be very careful. I learned some
Okay, this is the book to read if you are serious about investing in stocks. Benjamin Graham's "value investing" method is the time-tested "choose 'em carefully and hold 'em" long-term strategy used by Warren Buffett. Benjamin Graham is the man that Warren Buffett calls The Man. So, you know, if you want to be rich like Warren Buffett, read this book.... Of course it's not that easy. This book is long, dense, and dry. And even if you read and absorb every page, you're still not going to be Warre...
I saw that Benjamin Graham was Buffet's professor at Columbia and one of his closest friends. In fact Buffet named one of his kids after Graham. The Intelligent Investor teaches the philosophy that Buffet learned at school and went on to find massive success with. It does not teach people to ride market waves or speculate. Instead it instructs those who follow its teachings to calculate the intrinsic value of companies, find the ones that are either under priced or successful, but proven to have...
This is an amazing book. I read it when I was 13 and what I've learned has stuck in my head ever since. It changed my whole way of thinking about the stock market and investing in general.
This book is so long and so dry it's taken me foreverrrrrr to get through it... I put it down so many times and forced myself to open it back up. The delivery is just so f'n borin lol and also it's so old and some of it isn't even relevant anymore. There are some great things to learn in this book but I feel it's a bit one sided and not very worldly if you will. Really looks at one side of the coin instead of showing everything and letting you decide. This is something I also didn't really like
To be honest, I have never seen such a terrible book. I just can't imagine that this book worth nearly $22. Actually, it is too expensive for me to afford this book because it cost me almost all my pocket money. But it doesn't worth such much money. When I am reading this book, I can't see anything about investing. I even don't believe the author can speak English. There are so many stupid mistakes like spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes. And through the articles that Benjamin Graham wrote,
Why I Read this Book: Warren Buffet became the successful man he is today greatly as a result of what he learned from the man who wrote this book. We have the chance to read exactly what he read.Review:Whether you are an avid investor with a complex understanding of the markets or a beginner who is yet to start learning, there is little doubt that you have heard of Warren Buffet. He represents a level of success that very few people ever reach. Most of us know Buffet as the second richest man in...