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For better or worse it is a fact-based, almost textbook read. There is nothing revolutionary here, but it is written extremely well, a new resource for both professional and non-professional investors.

Investing can perhaps be best learned through a combination of applied practice and continuous study. Each investment contains a core insight that becomes a template for readers to use when considering their own investment opportunities. I like the ex...  Read More

The book provides an interesting insight to successfully selecting stocks. Ed includes some interesting material about behavioral finance, which he seemed to grasp intuitively. One of the greatest investing books of all times.

Ed walks the reader through his rigorous analytical and decision-making process. Ed urges us to think independently, and demonstrates the value of creating a unique frame of reference.

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Quality


Focusses on the good decisions and would have liked to see more errors and how he extracted himself from those situations


Very good read on how one can employ simple yet very productive ways to be successful in markets


There were several cases in which high returns were possible due to structural industry changes


There is nothing new in his investing approach however like the title of the book suggests it is simple and reinforced by takin...  Read More

Price


Great information for a value investor like myself


This is a must read for anyone interested in value investing and the stock market


Next he watched shares go to 80

Competitiveness


Wachenheim details the wisdom and strategies that he has employed for three decades of successful stock picking while also focu...  Read More


Summarynotwithstanding a few critiques this is a solid book for all fundamental investors focused on stockpicking


For instance ed correctly anticipated the upturn that occurred in the housing market after 2011 which had a significant effect ...  Read More


For example ed described his investment in interstate bakeries as being heavily influenced by his belief in the competence of the ceo

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  • This product had a total of 183 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 14 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Ed has a unique approach value investing yes but with a singular flavor and seems to stick to his knitting


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    You could read a lot of ponderous tomes on investing and never get the kind of basic insight ed provides in his book


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its not going to dethrone the intelligent investor but it doesnt need to read to get a flavor warts and all of how a great investor avoids going bust while producing above average returns for over 30 years


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This book should be added to the core curriculum for any aspiring value investor


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This is not a pedestrian value investment book of well worn concepts left at high level he gives the reader very specific examples for each investment providing numbers along the way


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    While some investment books try to inject wit irony or humor youll find little of that here


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Its usually only after hes made a decision to invest towards the last third of each chapter that we see personality emerge as he describes what happened next with each investment and how he reacted not all chapters of his investments are structured this way but most are


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Depending on your level of patience and whether or not the company had an interesting 34origin story34 these introductions can occasionally be tedious

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