The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America

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Summary: Icing on the investing cake!
Review: Who wants to read monotonous, stale cracker investment advice? Finally! A book that presents sophisticated business principles in cleverly simple form. Cunningham delivers Buffett like a piece of delectable chocolate cake - an entertaining, quick, and purely edible read! The best is yet to come for anyone who reads this book and applies Buffett's direct, common sense investment philosophy.

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Summary: Why not read Buffett in his own words?
Review: Why not read Buffett in his own words, instead of reading books ABOUT Buffett? Many other books about Buffett cover his approach to investing, but his annual letters to his shareholders excerpted in this book cover the same material. His letters are filled with wit and insights, and he's got a home-spun style that lightens up what might otherwise be a very dry subject. If you're not familiar with Buffett's value-based investing approach, then you'll learn about it here, and how it's helped him average an eye-popping 25% average annual return for 35 years running. For those already familiar with Buffett's approach, it's still enjoyable to read him in his own words. Highly recommended.

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Summary: Same old stuff
Review: Yet another boring rehash of the same old investment style. total waste of money.

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Summary: Best Gift Money Can Buy
Review: You can learn more from this book about money and business than from pretty much any other source of similar size. The mystery of why Buffett abhors tech stocks seems to be that they don't fit within the pretty tough standards he looks for in investments--products people need that can be sold at prices that generate steady and high profits. I guess from reading this tidy little book of treasures that Buffett is awaiting the inevitable shake out in the internet world before he'll allocate capital to it. It is too soon to tell which are the winning companies and which the losing companies--right now they are all losers. But some will emerge as winners, it's just that right now trying to pick which ones is more like going to Las Vegas than to Wall Street. This book sheds a lot of light not just on the traditional good investments but on these new kinds of investments too. I got the book as a gift and am really grateful to the person who gave it to me--I'm going to get some as gifts for people I like a lot too.