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A truly good book teaches me more than to just read it. I must soon
lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I
must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau
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as I always do, but even more so now that the beautiful weather has arrived and my school
break is still in full effect. I have read a lot of books in the recent years, most related to
investing, psychology, business, (auto)biographies and economics; these are the ones that
come to mind effortlessly.
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23) The Big Secret for the Small Investor Joel Greenblatt
24) Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements Mary Buffett
25) Paths to Wealth Through Common Stocks Phillip Fisher
26) Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - Edwin Lefevre
27) Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve - George Soros
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Cubsfan
- 1 year ago
- 1 year ago
Thanks,
I agree and really enjoy Joel Greenblatt's writing. I have seen "The Manual of
Ideas: The Proven Framework for Finding the Best Value Investments" but have
not read it. I will check it out.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Hpmst3 - 1 year ago
Tannor
- 1 year ago
Awesome list I will definitely pick more than a few out to read. Is that all the
business books that you have read over the years. Extensive list to say the least!
Hpmst3 - 1 year ago
I've read a lot of investment books but to read all those above one would have to
abstain from having a life for quite a while.
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- 1 year ago
'At some point you have to stop learning and start thinking'.
Brilliant!
Vgm - 1 year ago
To the above lists and suggestions, I'd add "When Money Dies: The nightmare of
deficit spending, devaluation and hyperinflation in Weimar Germany" by Adam
Ferguson
It was first published in 1975 and was re-published/rediscovered during the recent
crisis, gaining a certain cult status. It's a remarkable and dramatic read about how
a nation was destroyed by the (hyper)inflation which resulted from huge and
persistent deficit financing (quantitative easing).
I was surprised no-one mentioned "The Outsiders" by WN Thorndike. Strongly
recommended by Buffett. I learned a great deal about the workings of great
businesses from it.
I've heard alot of good things about the John Mihaljevic (Manual of Ideas) book
mentioned by Cubsfan above and look forward to reading it.
Thanks for the stimulation, Tannor!
Tannor
- 1 year ago
No problem and thanks for the recommendations Vgm. I agree that those are very
large lists but some interesting reads my be hand picked.
I love the quote above, "At some point you must stop learning and start thinking."
Only so much can be read the rest must be learned through experience and
process.
Vgm - 1 year ago
It might be worth observing that reading and thinking are not necessarily mutually
exclusive.
At one extreme, we can read simply to understand content. On a more profound
level, we can read with a view to really absorbing concepts on a much deeper
level, fully appreciating them and becoming aware of how we might apply them. A
fertile mind will be creating (ie, thinking) as it reads.
The application of those deeply ingrained concepts then becomes all the more
powerful when we do apply them to real life situations - investing in this case.
Correspondingly, if we read superficially, the application will likewise be superficial
when we do start to "think" and we will have limited ourselves.
Parodying Buffett, I might even say that reading and thinking are joined at the hip!
Batbeer2
- 1 year ago
>> It might be worth observing that reading and thinking are not necessarily
mutually exclusive.
Yes. Then again, I believe there are too many people who memorise books and
use that as a substitute for thinking. The results can be disastrous.
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Amen.
Read, observe and learn. Always learning, but learn to think. Take time to think.
And act (or not).
As another classic puts it:
"And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end;
and much study is a weariness of the flesh." (Ecclesiastes 12:12)
"there are too many people who memorise books and use that as a substitute for
thinking."
Batbeer -- Yes, agreed, and I was very careful not to talk about "memorising" but
rather to stress the concept of 'thinking deeply' to really understand and absorb
underlying concepts to then be able to apply them. Memorising may get us through
exams in school, but never through life. It's quite distinct from thinking.
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