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Book SynopsisImagine receiving investment advice from Warren Buffett, B.C. Forbes, Charles H. Dow, and 47 other great investors, all in a single, convenient resource. This collection brings their words of wisdom together in one useful volume, offering readers a unique insight into how these professionals achieved financial success through intelligent investing.
Trade ReviewEditor of The Book of Leadership Wisdom "A great patients' drug is one that cures an affliction once and for all, but a great investor's drug is one that the patient has to keep buying." -PETER LYNCH
"Those who invest well have an innate ability to distill abundant, raw information into the scarce commodity of wisdom. Here's how some of the best have done it down through the years." -David H. Komansky, Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
"I personally knew moderately all the characters except Charles Dow. Any opportunity to learn more from such people is an opportunity that should not be missed." -Roy R. Neuberger, [his job title TK], Neuberger Berman Inc., and author of So Far, So Good: The First 94 years
Table of ContentsTHE NUTS AND BOLTS OF ANALYSIS.
Warren E. Buffett: Track Record Is Everything.
Philip Fisher: The People Factor.
Henry Clews: The Study of the Stock Market.
Arnold Bernhard: The Valuation of Listed Stocks.
Paul F. Miller, Jr.: The Dangers of Retrospective Myopia.
Jim Rogers: Get Smart...and Make a Fortune.
Peter Lynch: Stalking the Tenbagger.
ATTITUDE AND PHILOSOPHY.
Adam Smith: Can Ink Blots Tell You...
Ellen Douglas Williamson: Do-It-Yourself Investing.
John Moody: Investment versus Speculation.
John C. Bogle: A Mandate for Fund Shareholders.
B. C. Forbes: Wall Street Millionaires.
Fred Schwed, Jr.: The Wall Street Dream Market.
STRATEGY.
Edward C. Johnson, II: Contrary Opinion in Stock Market Techniques.
Peter L. Bernstein: Is Investing for the Long Term Theory or Just Mumbo-Jumbo?
Sir John Templeton: The Time-Tested Maxims of the Templeton Touch.
Mario Gabelli: Grand Slam Hitting.
Gerald M. Loeb: Importance of Correct Timing.
Philip Carret: When Speculation Becomes Investment.
MARKET CYCLES.
Charles H. Dow: Booms and Busts.
William Peter Hamilton: The Dow Theory.
Roger W. Babson: Three Different Stock Market Movements.
Bernard M. Baruch: Does a Stock Market Slump Mean a Business Slide-Off?
Abby Joseph Cohen: A Fundamental Strength.
Joseph E. Granville: Market Movements.
Arthur Crump: The Importance of Special Knowledge.
Robert R. Prechter: Elvis, Frankenstein and Andy Warhol.
VIEWS FROM THE INSIDE.
W. W. Fowler: The Stock Exchange.
Edward H. H. Simmons: The Stock Exchange as a Stabilizing Factor in American Business.
Otto Kahn: The New York Stock Exchange and Public Opinion.
Charles E. Merrill and E. A. Pierce: A Declaration of Policy.
Micheal H. Steinhardt: Investing, Hedge-Fund Style.
Laura Pedersen: The Last Frontier.
LESSONS FROM NOTORIOUS CHARACTERS.
Bouck White: Daniel Drew on Wall Street.
Richard Whitney: In Defense of the Stock Exchange.
T. Boone Pickens, Jr.: Professions of a Short-Termer.
James Grant: Michael Milken, Meet Sewell Avery.
CRASH AND LEARN.
Frank A. Vanderlip: The Haunting Specter (1907).
Edwin Lefèvre: Vanished Billions (1929).
J. Paul Getty: The Wall Street Investor (1962).
George Soros: After Black Monday (1987).
BEYOND YOUR AVERAGE BLUE CHIP.
Leo Melamed: The Art of Futures Trading.
Stanley Kroll: How to Win Big and Lose Small.
Benjamin Graham: The Art of Hedging.
Martin E. Zweig: Selling Short-It's Not Un-American.
Donald J. Trump: Trump Cards: The Elements of the Deal.
Acknowledgments.
Notes.
