Holds a PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley; has taught history, served in city government and worked as a securities analyst, a CFO and a management consultant.
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond rebuilds the Graham and Dodd method as three sequential estimates - asset value, earnings power value, then the value of growth inside a franchise - instead of one discounted cash flow number. Competition Demystified reduces strategy to a single testable question: whether a business holds barriers to entry in a defined local market.
3 books of their own · 2 articles
Wiley published it in 2020.
“George has also written a book on value investing, From Theory to Practice, which I highly recommend.” — Prem Watsa
Source: Fairfax Financial 2021 Shareholders' Letter, p. 35
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Prem Watsa, Joel Greenblatt and 1 other
Barriers to entry as the only durable source of a toll.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Li Lu
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond | Wiley published it in 2020. | 2001 | T3 | Mohnish Pabrai, Prem Watsa, Joel Greenblatt and 1 others |
Competition Demystified: A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy | Barriers to entry as the only durable source of a toll. | 2005 | T3 | Mohnish Pabrai, Li Lu |
Globalization: n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job | – | 2008 | T3 | – |
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