How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett

How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett

by Lawrence A. Cunningham
How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett

How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett

by Lawrence A. Cunningham

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Overview

How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett wraps a lifetime of investing wisdom into one highly accessible package. An intelligent guide to analyzing and valuing investment targets, it tells investors what questions to ask, what answers to expect, and how to approach any stock as a skeptical, common-sense business analyst.

Above all, this fast-paced book provides investors with the tools they need to thoroughly value any business in which they might invest. A common-sense approach to investing, this book discusses:

  • Three things investors must get from a financial statement
  • Valuation examples from today's top companies including GE, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney
  • Why prices deviate from actual values

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780071381048
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date: 02/06/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 267
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lawrence A. Cunningham is author of the bestselling The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America as well as a number of textbooks and supplements. As director of the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center on Corporate Governance at Cardozo Law School, Professor Cunningham is a leading expert in three fields that are essential to successful investing—accounting, finance, and corporate governance. He has been featured in Forbes and Money, as well as on CNN and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and is frequently invited to speak to investment groups throughout North America.

Table of Contents

Part I: A Tale of Two Markets. Chapter 1: Mr. Market's Bipolar Disorder. Chapter 2: Prozac Market. Chapter 3: Chaotic Market. Chapter 4: Amplified Volatility. Chapter 5: Take the Fifth. Part II: Show Me the Money. Chapter 6: Apple Trees and Experience. Chapter 7: Your Circle of Competence. Chapter 8: Recognizing Success. Chapter 9: You Make the Call. Chapter 10: Making (Up) Numbers. Part III: In Managers We Trust. Chapter 11: Going Global. Chapter 12: Rules and Trust. Chapter 13: Directors at Work. Chapter 14: The Fireside CEO. Conclusion: The V Culture.

What People are Saying About This

J. Gottesman

Anyone desiring to be a successful investor should read this excellent book presenting the important investing principles of Graham, Buffett, Fisher, and others in a most insightful and understandable manner.
—(J. Gottesman, Chairman, First Manhattan)

Janet Lowe

Lawrence Cunningham explains, then debunks, most of today's acronyms, buzz words, and pop investing concepts. He gets down to the fundamentals that investors must know about companies in order to choose reliable winners in the stock market.
—(Janet Lowe, Author,Benjamin Graham on Value Investing and Warren Buffett Speaks )

David Henry

Remarkably timely. For stock players who realize they played the greatest fool in the Internet stock game, Cunningham offers a tool for rehabilitation: a guide to thoughtful investing. For earnest investors, he shows how to live profitably with the moodiness of Mr. Market.
—(David Henry, Columnist, USA Today)

J. Heyman

While the stock market does not always behave rationally, Larry Cunningham's well-articulated and insightful views as to value investing are a refreshing reminder that, just as night follows day, a return to the principles at the core of Cunningham's common sense approach to investing is inevitable.
—(J. Heyman, Chairman of the Board and CEO, GAF Corporation)

Alan C. Greenberg

A much-needed work on a unique style of investing, this book puts the ABCs of common sense valuation back into the business of investing. This is the place to look for insight and guidance in the age of volatile markets and colliding ideas.
—(Alan C. Greenberg, Chairman, Bear Stearns)

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