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Title: The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America by Warren Buffett, Warren E. Buffett, Lawrence A. Cunningham ISBN: 0-9664461-1-9 Publisher: Lawrence A. Cunningham (The Cunningham Group) Pub. Date: 11 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (45 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Purely Warren Buffett
Comment: This book collects all the essays which Warren Buffett wrote, which in essence is his Berkshire Hathaway chairman's report, and arranges them neatly in order so the reader isn't confused. The great thing about this, is that you don't have to go digging through mountains of statistics and figures just to find Mr Buffett's words of advice and wisdom. This is especially good for non Berkshire shareholders who haven't had access to the reports since day one. The Berkshire reports tends to assume that you've been following them in order hence if you start off with the 1993 one, you'll probably end up all muddled.
Now as we all know, there are loads of books dedicated to Mr Buffett and proclaim to be able to help you use Mr Buffett's wisdom and turn yourself into Warren Buffett Jr. What makes this book stands out from the others is that it doesn't make any attempt to interpret or analyze Mr Buffett's investment technique nor does the author try to give advice to the reader. Its all Warren Buffett plain and simple. In defence of the accusation that this book is [not great]since you can get everything from the reports, I'd just like to point out that this book never made any attempt to be anything but exactly what appeared in the Berkshire annual reports. If you are comfortable with the numbers that appear in the report, by all means continue with the report. This book is merely attempting to makes your life much easier if you don't want to pound your head needlessly figuring out the figures that plague the report, but yet be able to access Mr Buffett's wisdom. Also I'd like to point out that Warren Buffett has never written any books apart from what appeared in the annual reports. In escence Larry Cunningham has created the book Warren Buffett has never written. All the others which the authors offer their opinion on the investing style has diluted Mr Buffetts wisdom and you now have to sort out which is the author's own conviction and which one is authentically Warren Buffett
Rating: 5
Summary: A Buffet Gem
Comment: Any book by Buffet on finance and business is in my humble opiniion worth 5 stars at Amazon.com.
This is a low key Buffet style presentation (collection) of many of his key ideas such as coporate governance, investing, mergers, etc. including an interesting section called "Accounting Shenanigans". These are pulled together from a series of writings that Buffet sent to his fellow Berkshire Hathaway shareholders over the years.
He is always a person that makes a lot of sensible and solid comments. The book was well received by the professional financial press. On a sort of funny note Lawrence Cunnigham writes a short piece on how he put together the colllection of writings on Buffet and Buffet's comment. In Buffet's low key way he wants the reader to understand the success is not due to him but Buffet is just putting into practice what his teachers taught him - those being Graham and Dodd. He forgets to mention that perhaps he was the one that best took those lessons to heart.
If you had given Buffet $20 in the 1960's, you would have close to $40,000.today - steady progress upward. It is a Recommended BUY!
Jack in Toronto.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Wit and Wisdom of Warren Buffett
Comment: If you are used to reading public company annual reports, including the (usually) short letters from company presidents, you know how shallow, self-congratulatory and sometimes even misleading these reports can be. On the (extreme) other hand, Warren Buffett's annual letters in his Berkshire Hathaway annual reports represent detailed, on-target, lively and highly readable masterpieces of valuable education, information, and wit. You can read Buffett's annual letters for free at Berkshire Hathaway's website, but it will take you a while, since there are many of them (back to 1977) and they run 20+ pages each. Further, Buffett's various letters weren't intended to serve as serial chapters of a book. Better, you can shell out the cost of Lawrence Cunningham's thematically organized collection (220 pages or so)of Buffett's essays and gain a better appreciation of the numerous important topics that Buffett addresses. These topics include, first and foremost, the critical impact of the quality of corporate governance--Buffett was years ahead of most investors in focusing on this area. Other topics include corporate finance (addressed with a clarity that is both unusual and revealing of Buffett's powers of insight), mergers and acquisitions, accounting (Buffett is the only person I know who can regularly make accounting seem positively interesting), taxes, junk bonds and much more.
Moreover, Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is nearly unique in its intense commitment to shareholders. The opposite (a commitment to management entrenchment and exorbitant compensation) is the norm with so many companies today that it would be easy to forget how vital shareholder primacy should be. As you read Buffett's essays you will have a model to measure other companies against--which should come in handy the next time you exercise your voting rights as a shareholder.
Life is short. As an investor or a concerned citizen-shareholder, you can learn through your own experiences, of course. There's nothing wrong with that, but the process can be long and expensive. (Depending on one's experiences, it can be very expensive.) Alternately, you can learn via Warren Buffett's lifetime of experiences distilled into a very readable, lively, fascinating collection of his essays. Buy the book-I doubt that you'll regret it.
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Title: The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing, Revised Edition by Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig ISBN: 0060555661 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 08 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Bestseller on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham ISBN: 0060155477 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 22 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Buffett : The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein ISBN: 0385484917 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 18 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings by Philip A. Fisher, Kenneth L. Fisher ISBN: 0471445509 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 22 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham, Spencer Meredith ISBN: 0887309135 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 15 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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