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Summary: Go to the Berkshire Hathaway Website
Review: The reader of this book will do far better by going to the website of Warren Buffett's company where all annual reports are and where another person has not chopped the information up. There are no new insights in this book from the collator and although one could argue the book saves time I believe the reader will find the complete annual reports more rewarding.
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Summary: Go to the Berkshire Hathaway Website
Review: The reader of this book will do far better by going to the website of Warren Buffett's company where all annual reports are and where another person has not chopped the information up. There are no new insights in this book from the collator and although one could argue the book saves time I believe the reader will find the complete annual reports more rewarding.
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Summary: A good investment
Review: There is little doubt that Warren Buffett is one of the most successful business men of our time. The track record of Berkshire Hathaway speaks for it self, as does Warren Buffett. He has made a point out of speaking frankly and openly at the Annual Meetings for the shareholders and printing the yearly reports will give you all his thoughts throughout the years.
This book organises his thoughts very well into a number of key areas and thereby leads you through the Buffett Universe. It is a very intelligent and surprisingly unsofisticated one, build on a set of core values the corporate businesses should take a careful look at.
If you like investing yourself, this also gives you a few hints on what to focus on and what not to focus on.
The Oracle from Omaha is always entertaining and this book makes that very obvious and is well worth a read.
Be aware......it is not a normal business book, you may find yourself laughing from time to time....
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Summary: Purely Warren Buffett
Review: 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
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Summary: Excellent synopsis of Buffett's writings
Review: This book contains a wonderful and well-organized collection of Warren Buffett's essays related to the world of business. Mr. Buffett is widely known as one of the most articulate, successful and intelligent businesspeople of our time.While all of Mr. Buffett's writings are worth reading, this book represents a helpful distillation and codification of the general principles of business in general, and investing in particular. This book is well worth a read.
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Summary: An great compilation of his yearly letters to shareholders
Review: This book has been put together very well, and organized with easily accessable topics from unorganized yearly letters. (Not that they were bad, because they were good, but because put together they are not very organized by themselves). I can easily look up information from this book to guide me on my stock market leaps and bounds.
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Summary: An great compilation of his yearly letters to shareholders
Review: This book has been put together very well, and organized with easily accessable topics from unorganized yearly letters. I can easily look up information from this book to guide me on my stock market leaps and bounds.
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Summary: A Good Digest
Review: This book is a good digest of Warren Buffett's views becauseMr. Cunningham essentially put together, in a topic by topic form,Buffett's amazing "Chairman's letters" to the shareholdersof Berkshire Hathaway. However, while this book is far better thanothers that attempt to describe Warren Buffett's fabulously successfulinvesting philosophy, it is not as informative or as entertaining asreading through all of Buffett's letters to his shareholders for thosewilling to attempt that feat... The various other books on WarrenBuffett, written by lesser authors, can be interesting to read, butyou should realize that those books get alot wrong, often trying tocreate a mathematical short-hand or witty one-liner-method to attainBuffett-style investing results. If you are looking for somethingbeyond this or Buffett's shareholder letters, check out P. Fisher'sUncommon Profits, and B. Graham's Security Analysis 3rd edition, bothof which Buffett has stated as having influenced him strongly.
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Summary: Required reading material in an extremely useful format!
Review: This book is a great, well organized compilation of Mr. Buffett's famous "Letters to Shareholders" which appear in the annual reports of Berkshire Hathaway. It has been recently updated to include the letters to shareholders written since the book was first released in 1996, a new introduction has been written, and a new, tougher, blue cover has been added. Mr. Buffett advised shareholders at the 1999 & 2000 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting if he had to pick a single book describing his methods, this would be the one. It is a great tool to use when trying to compile Mr. Buffett's comments on a particular subject since it is organized by subjects he has discussed in his letters over the years. Trying to find all of his comments on a particular subject throughout the annual reports is a time consuming task when you have to look through many years worth of annual reports. Mr. Cunningham has made this task much simpler with this book.
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Summary: Required reading material in an extremely useful format!
Review: This book is a great, well organized compilation of Mr. Buffett's famous "Letters to Shareholders" which appear in the annual reports of Berkshire Hathaway. It has been recently updated to include the letters to shareholders written since the book was first released in 1996, a new introduction has been written, and a new, tougher, blue cover has been added. Mr. Buffett advised shareholders at the 1999 & 2000 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting if he had to pick a single book describing his methods, this would be the one. It is a great tool to use when trying to compile Mr. Buffett's comments on a particular subject since it is organized by subjects he has discussed in his letters over the years. Trying to find all of his comments on a particular subject throughout the annual reports is a time consuming task when you have to look through many years worth of annual reports. Mr. Cunningham has made this task much simpler with this book.
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