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Summary: Six stars!
Review: This book describes Buffet's investment principles and decisions in a clear, brief and very good way. Especially interesting is the discussion of the tenets that guide Buffet's purchases and the analysis of some of Buffet's investments, following these tenets. Buffet is the most succesful investor of the last decades, so studying his decisions and philosophy is, according to me, one of the best things an investor can do to learn about the business. This book offers an excellent opportunity to do so.
(By the way, if you really want to know how Buffet operates, reading the books of his masters, Fisher and especially Graham, is a requisite too!)
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Summary: one of the most popular investment reads
Review: This book is for anyone whether you are trying to understand investing for the first time or an experienced investor refreshing yourself with the principles of fundamental analysis. Hagstrom answers all the questions of what makes Buffett one of the most successful investors of our time. He talks about Buffett's childhood as a boy ambitious to turn a profit in selling Coca Cola as well as his philosophy behind which he makes his decisions on buying a particular stock. The refreshing part about investing like Buffett is whether you buy millions of dollars worth of stock or just a few shares of stock, you can still use the same principles that Buffett uses in making a decision. The methods are straight-forward and bring common sense approach to picking stocks. In it you buy stocks as if you were buying groceries and not as if you were buying perfume. It is not even necessary to know any complicated formulae about how to determine the value of a stock although some elementary math is required. If you only had to pick one book to read about investing and burn all the other books I would recommend this book. It is more informative that many other textbooks out there read by college students filled with unnecessary math and financial theory.
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Summary: one of the most popular investment reads
Review: This book is for anyone whether you are trying to understand investing for the first time or an experienced investor refreshing yourself with the principles of fundamental analysis. Hagstrom answers all the questions of what makes Buffett one of the most successful investors of our time. He talks about Buffett's childhood as a boy ambitious to turn a profit in selling Coca Cola as well as his philosophy behind which he makes his decisions on buying a particular stock. The refreshing part about investing like Buffett is whether you buy millions of dollars worth of stock or just a few shares of stock, you can still use the same principles that Buffett uses in making a decision. The methods are straight-forward and bring common sense approach to picking stocks. In it you buy stocks as if you were buying groceries and not as if you were buying perfume. It is not even necessary to know any complicated formulae about how to determine the value of a stock although some elementary math is required. If you only had to pick one book to read about investing and burn all the other books I would recommend this book. It is more informative that many other textbooks out there read by college students filled with unnecessary math and financial theory.
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Summary: Makes very valuable points, but is technically flawed.
Review: This book is good for beginners. Hagstrom's tenets provide a good foundation. However, he uses a seriously flawed method when determining the Intrinsic Value of a business. He says that the value of a business is the 'present value of all future cash flows discounted at an appropriate rate.' This is correct. For some reason though, when faced with the challenge of actually calculating this, he abandons this method in favor of another less accurate one. Another thing that bothered me was his "bending of the rules" when it came to analyzing Buffet's holdings. The tenets he set forth in the beginning of the book are supposed to be hard-and-fast rules that Buffet applies when screening potential investments. However, when compared side-by-side with Buffet's actual investments, there are more contrasts than similarities. As I said, a good book for beginners, but I would also recommend that they learn how to calculate Net Present Value (or buy a financial calculator) if they want an accurate picture of a company's Intrinsic Value.
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Summary: Very interesting and helpful book
Review: This book is very useful to us. It clearly explains why Warren Buffet is so successful. Perhaps we can use the tenets listed in the book for our investing experiences. But it explains the intrinsic value model not so clear. How to evaluate the intrinsic value of a company if it has 60% percent of debt in its total asset? Please suggest any further books on this!
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Summary: Poorly written and not very useful
Review: This book was a chore to read, which is a shame because it could have been a great book due to its subject matter (Warren Buffet, one of the greatest investors ever). Unfortunately, the author's presentation is dry and dull, and the information detailed within is not as useful as it should be -- I had hoped to see more detailed discussions of the process by which Buffet makes his investments. My expectations for this book were high and they were dashed. Instead of reading this book, I would seek out and read Warren Buffet's own writings, as well as articles about him and his investments in magazines such as Business Week. Doing this will give you a rounded picture of "The Warren Buffet Way" with the additional benefit of Buffet's own commentary.
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Summary: STOCK MARKET FUNDAMENTALS CLEARLY EXPLAINED AND APPLIED
Review: This comments is about the paperback edition. This book is not suitable for short-term traders (speculators). However, it is highly considered as a suitable book for medium and long-term investors.Here you have an opportunity to see why an "opportunity" was chosen and the reasons for one to keep holding on until it is time to take profits. It can also help the managers and directors to understand what investors think about their company Apart from equity, it also deals with debt instruments. I like the quote on p.48 by Descartes which states: "It is not good enough to have good intelligence. the principle thing is to apply it."
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Summary: Great book that should be on every investor's bookshelf.
Review: This is one of the most helpful books on investing that I have ever read. I have only one suggestion for the author - Please add more details on the "Residual Value" calculations on Pages 291 thru 298.
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Summary: please HELP!!
Review: We are trying to get hold of the book Buffetts Way in South Africa. Apparently it has been out of print for a long time and we are desperate to get hold of a copy. Sorry to use this space for our enquiry!
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Summary: It did it for me.
Review: Well, this may not be the best book on Buffet out there, but it did it for me. Tables and comments were helpfull enough. I don't want to compare it to other books out there or Buffet's own reports; I don't care. All I am interested is how to invest my money. And boy I did! Three years ago when I read the book I was looking for ways to invest my $130000. After I had red the book I did the homework and put all I had on just five companies. I still own those companies and I did only one rotation since then. My account now is $450000 and I am telling the truth. I have never lost sleep over my investments. Occasionaly I would check to see how I was doing, but that was all! In the meanwhile I was occupied with things I chose to do in my life and even obtained a Ph.D. I knew that since I was in there for the long term with good companies I would be winning. Along the way market helped me exactly in the way it helped Buffet, by bringing prices of good companies down and meking it possible for me to buy at good prices. After all, the best investment decision I consider is buying this book. Not because it is that good, but because it was good enough to teach me how to disregard what the speculators in the market were doing.
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