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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing Paperback – Feb. 21 2006
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The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" - which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies - has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles.
Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
- Print length640 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarper Business
- Publication dateFeb. 21 2006
- Dimensions13.49 x 4.06 x 20.32 cm
- ISBN-109780060555665
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The hallmark of Graham's philosophy is not profit maximization but loss minimization. In this respect, The Intelligent Investor is a book for true investors, not speculators or day traders. He provides, "in a form suitable for the laymen, guidance in adoption and execution of an investment policy" (1). This policy is inherently for the longer term and requires a commitment of effort. Where the speculator follows market trends, the investor uses discipline, research, and his analytical ability to make unpopular but sound investments in bargains relative to current asset value. Graham coaches the investor to develop a rational plan for buying stocks and bonds, and he argues that this plan must be a bulwark against emotional behavior that will always be tempting during abrupt bull and bear markets.
Since it was first published in 1949, Graham's investment guide has sold over a million copies and has been praised by such luminaries as Warren E. Buffet as "the best book on investing every written." These accolades are well deserved. In its new form--with commentary on each chapter and extensive footnotes prepared by senior Money editor, Jason Zweig--the classic is now updated in light of changes in investment vehicles and market activities since 1972. What remains is a better book. Graham's sage advice, analytical guides, and cautionary tales are still valid for the contemporary investor, and Zweig's commentaries demonstrate the relevance of Graham's principles in light of 1990s and early twenty-first century market trends. --Patrick O'Kelley
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“By far the best book on investing ever written.” — Warren Buffett
“If you read just one book on investing during your lifetime, make it this one” — Fortune
“The wider Mr. Graham’s gospel spreads, the more fairly the market will deal with its public.” — Barron's
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The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of “value investing”—which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies—has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949.
Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham’s strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham’s original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today’s market, draws parallels between Graham’s examples and today’s financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham’s principles.
Vital and indispensable, The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
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- ASIN : 0060555661
- Publisher : Harper Business; Revised ed. edition (Feb. 21 2006)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 640 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780060555665
- Item weight : 454 g
- Dimensions : 13.49 x 4.06 x 20.32 cm
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Benjamin Graham (/ɡræm/; born Benjamin Grossbaum; May 8, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was a British-born American economist and professional investor. Graham is considered the father of value investing, an investment approach he began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently refined with David Dodd through various editions of their famous book Security Analysis. Graham had many disciples in his lifetime, a number of whom went on to become successful investors themselves. Graham's most well-known disciples include Warren Buffett, William J. Ruane, Irving Kahn and Walter J. Schloss, among others. Buffett, who credits Graham as grounding him with a sound intellectual investment framework, described him as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. In fact, Graham had such an overwhelming influence on his students that two of them, Buffett and Kahn, named their sons Howard Graham Buffett and Thomas Graham Kahn after him. Graham also taught at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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Jason Zweig is an investing and personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Previously, he was a senior writer at Money magazine, mutual-funds editor at Forbes magazine, and a guest columnist for Time and cnn.com. He is the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's "The Intelligent Investor," the classic text that Warren Buffett has called "by far the best book about investing ever written." He is also the author of "The Devil's Financial Dictionary," a satirical glossary of Wall Street terms, and "Your Money and Your Brain," on the neuroscience and psychology of financial decision-making. Zweig serves on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. Visit the author at www.jasonzweig.com and follow him on Twitter at @jasonzweigwsj.
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2. The difference between an "aggressive investor" and a "defensive investor" is the willingness to put in effort, not the willingness to take risks
Although this book was extremely educational, it was a very tough read. This book was much more like a textbook than.a quick read.
All in all, the Intelligent Investor is a great book for people already somewhat experienced with finance. It exposes them to new ideas. However, I would advise against people not yet comfortable with some basic concepts in finance.
I began this book thinking I might have a side hobby of picking individual stocks as a side hobby. This book dispelled me of the glamour of that notion. As Benjamin Graham himself notes, a passive investor (someone who invests to at least match the average return of the stock market) can enoy success with a minimum of time while an enterprising investor (someone who works to "beat" the stock market) would only have a reasonable chance of success after doing lots of work as analysis and also having the necessary intellectual aptitude. Being an enterprising investor isn't for me because I can't dedicate the time to adequately research companies as he teaches in his book. I suspect that my situation would be the same as 99% of other people who want to invest their money.
What the book did most effectively for me is resolve my latent Dunning-Kruger effect where I imagined I could beat the intelligent people of Wall Street at their own game. I found the chapter commentaries by Jason Zweig to be especially helpful at highlighting amateur speculators who jumped into hot trends like dot com companies right before the industry collapsed. Both Jason and Ben work painstakingly to illustrate how hard it is to do the work of properly evaluating a company and establishing its true value vs its current price on the stock market or its book value (the balance of how much the companies assets are worth after already accounting for debts and liabilities).
The book helped me become literate about the different forms of investments available to me and the merits and handicaps of each. Bonds, Preferred Stocks, ETF's and Treasury Bills meant nothing to me before reading the book. Now I have a fair enough grasp of all investment tools to know what I'm getting into if I should ever choose to invest. The book is a long read as it goes through the in depth process of educating a lay person like myself but it does its job well. In that sense the book has aged marvelously with the help of modern commentary by Jason Zweig.
One drawback for me is that at various points Graham and Zweig tried to discuss how to address tax on capital income best but the advice was only relevant to an American. As a Canadian, I skipped those chapters and I had to research for myself about best reducing the taxable amount on my investment gains. Canadians might find a similar book written by a Canadian to be a better choice. Better yet, read both and be even more well prepared for investing on your own.
In the end, I decided that a balanced portfolio of ETF's tracking stocks and Canadian bonds. Being able to buy these on my own, without being hand held by a broker means that this book will probably already be saving me hundreds of dollars by the end of the year in management fees. Trust me, this book will pay for itself many times with sensible and sober advice.
In the future, I might do some angel investing for small start ups that I'm familiar with or other non-publicly traded investment opportunities. I'll only be doing that after reading many other books of the same caliber as this one. Even then, I'll be considering Graham's sagely advice to invest based on my careful assessment of what a company is actually worth, or in his words to “invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.”
It's not a light read, being almost 600 pages and contains more than enough information and tools to make informed investment decisions. It should be in every serious investors library.
I made the first attempt to read this book 2 years ago but had failed. At that time, I knew little about the stock market, the economy, how businesses work. Much of the text made no sense to me and I had eventually given up after 4 chapters. However, after getting educated by the good folks on YouTube, I was able to give this book another try. Granted, it was still very challenging, but the value that I received from it was far greater than the literary hardship I endured.
This is not a book that will get your blood to boil with excitement; it does not have tactics that offer promises of "do this and get rich". If you are here for that reason, this is not the book for you. It however, guides you to approach the art of investment with the right attitude to stock prices, fluctuations, portfolio and risk. This book provides the readers immense investment experience with an attempt to shape an aspiring investor like myself with a proper mindset.
Mr. Zweig's commentary after each chapter are mostly helpful. There are instances that I had finished a chapter without getting much of it. The commentary then explains what Mr. Graham really meant in an easy-to-understand way. However, I did find the comparisons of different companies in one of the commentaries to be quite repeated. Most of the examples from the commentary were drawn from the dot com bubble and therefore the comparisons had rather predictable endings. Though it is still valuable to witness second hand at how bad things became when it burst.
On the literary side, the language employed was slightly historical. Many sentences required me to re-read in order to understand. I think this is a good way to practise patience, as information is so easily accessible in today's world. I also got to learn a few new words from the text.
There are a lot of online commentaries on this book, as it has become almost "biblical" in value investing. I recommend the readers to use these commentaries to get a modern view of Mr. Graham's concepts.
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Reviewed in Poland 🇵🇱 on March 11, 2022


Percebe-se que o autor tem domínio do assunto e transmite ao leitor paciente conhecimentos valiosos.
No entanto, o livro é extremamente maçante e faz muitas referências à realidade do mercado financeiro dos Estados Unidos de décadas atrás.
Os textos do (bom) comentador atualizam muita coisa e amenizam o estilo pesado da parte original da obra.

5 stars for the content. Although the printing quality is poor. At least my book had several sentences where multiple words were missing, thus getting an overall score of 4 stars