Warren Buffett's 3 Favorite Books: A guide to The Intelligent Investor, Security Analysis, and The Wealth of Nations Author: Preston George Pysh | Language: English | ISBN:
B0085W03FM | Format: PDF
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Completely interactive with over 10 hours of video content. A starting point for amateur and intermediate investors to finally understand the content found in The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis. Content pertaining to The Wealth of Nations is short and only added to highlight the importance of philanthropy. Easy to understand, yet covers complex topics for stocks, bonds, and preferred shares.Did you know Warren Buffett, the world's wealthiest stock investor, is quoted as saying three books have shaped his investment philosophy? For more than half a century, he used the information provided in these three books to go from nothing - to a massive $39 billion net worth. The three books that gave him this wisdom are:
The Wealth of Nations (pub. 1776) by Adam Smith,
Security Analysis (pub. 1934) by Benjamin Graham, and
The Intelligent Investor (pub. 1949), also by Benjamin Graham.
In fact, Benjamin Graham was Buffett's professor at Columbia and the most influential financial advisor he ever had.
So, have you ever tried reading Graham's books? Many might agree the books are as exciting as listening to Ben Stein read the 30th page of The Wall Street Journal.
It is time we fixed that. Instead of keeping these billion-dollar secrets hidden behind thousands of pages of financial jargon, I wrote one simple guide - Warren Buffett's Three Favorite Books.
If you're looking for a guide that explains how the wealthy really think and buy assets, you're in the right place. This isn't a get-rich-quick book. Instead, this is where your investing techniques take a turn in the road. This book will teach you how to accumulate assets and become very wealthy over decades of wise decisions and proper asset valuation. The best part about the book is the methods are taught in an easy-to-follow and understandable scenario for all to enjoy!
- File Size: 1241 KB
- Print Length: 182 pages
- Publisher: Pylon Publishing (May 23, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B0085W03FM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Not since, "The 4-Hour Work Week" have I been so disappointed in a book.
Warren Buffet should be incensed that his name was used to sell this book. The book touts itself as, "A Guide to The Intelligent Investor, Security Analysis, and The Wealth of Nations". As to the last ... one chapter, consisting of 2.5 pages, which most accurately states, "Since the book you are reading is geared toward individual investing, I haven't found the right place to discuss Smith's famous macroeconomic principles." He really doesn't. Half of the chapter(ette) is a short story about his children, and the rest is a bit of biography of Smith that you can find on Wikipedia. Clearly, "The Wealth of Nations" was just included as a pretext to throw Warren Buffett's name into the title.
The lead on Amazon states that, "... This book is concise (182 pages) ..." Well yes, if you count 16 blank pages and 6 pages of lined paper for note taking, and every page of biography, publishing information, acknowledgements, etc. Concise is misleading. Book may be misleading. The bio states that Pysh is the founder of Pylon Holding Company, and the book is published by Pylon Publishing. I wish I had known that ahead of time. It is rife with grammatical errors ("loose" instead of "lose", being the most annoying). Perhaps the back cover reviews should have been a clue - one by a professor of business (acceptable but little known), the other by the CEO of "Candemia" - which turns out to be a three-person company.
What is Pysh's own expertise? Is he an economics professor? Does he run a hedge fund or mutual fund or anything but Pylon Publishing? It seems not. Yet the book is filled with his own advice on how to invest, with no better qualification than that he wrote a book. While I agree that he does cover some complex subjects in simple terms, I just don't believe that I made an "intelligent investment" when I bought this book.
By Darryl Kerkeslager
Even for someone familiar with the concepts discussed in the book, I found it refreshingly accessible and useful.
I bought the Kindle version of this book, which comes with links to the author's webpage that includes other learning aids. I highly recommend the book for the following reasons:
1. The technical concepts are accurately explained, so readers are getting an excellent discussion of basic finance and investing.
2. The style of the book is conversational (it covers complicated concepts such as bond value/interest rate relationships from the simple story of Billy's Lemonade Stand) and non-technical.
3. It marries the nuts and bolts of a business model with investing. It disabuses anyone from thinking of investing as another form of gambling.
4. The progression from simple to sophisticated concepts is well paced and with the online resources, forms a good self-study program.
In the age of the television financial high priest whose claim to legitimacy is achieved by deepening the mystery of investing, Mr. Pysc has written a down-to-earth book that everyone who has a pension account, a college savings fund or brokerage account should read. At the very least, it would allow one to ask intelligent questions of our financial advisors.
By Phillip Phan
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