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Developing an Investment Philosophy

Developing an Investment Philosophy

Philip Fisher
1980
47 pages · about 47m to read Open Librarygoodreads

Financial Analysts Research Foundation monograph.

About Philip Fisher

Founder, Fisher & Company, 1931-1999

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits defined qualitative growth investing and the scuttlebutt method, and Buffett credits him as one of his two intellectual sources.

Fisher & Company

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Philip Fisher
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