
Published posthumously; edited by Seymour Chatman.
Co-founder, Graham-Newman Corporation; lecturer in finance, Columbia Business School 1928-1956
Security Analysis and The Intelligent Investor are the founding texts of value investing and remain the primary source every later value investor argues from.
Chosen by shared topics, the entries that hold them, and the people who recommended both.
Part life, part method; based on interviews with his circle.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
The only full biography; workmanlike rather than definitive.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Short monograph by a student and colleague.
How to read financial statements sceptically and value bonds and stocks.
“I've spent more time with all of the editions of Benjamin Graham and David Dodd's Security Analysis than with any other book” — Christopher Bloomstran
Source: Semper Augustus 2024 Letter to Clients, 'Books and Tunes for Walking', p. 95
Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran, Howard Marks and 11 others
Treat stocks as parts of businesses and buy only with a margin of safety.
“I have been accused of telling all my secrets. I have written a number of books, and I reveal them all in these books.” — Benjamin Graham
Source: Graham on revealing everything he knows in his books
Recommended by: Benjamin Graham, Christopher Bloomstran and 27 others
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