Money and Finance
- Warren Buffett's $50 Billion Decision – By Warren Buffett
Benjamin Graham had been my idol ever since I read his book The Intelligent Investor. I had wanted to go to Columbia Business School because he was a professor there, and after I got out of Columbia, returned to Omaha, and started selling securities,...
- Valuehuntr Blog: The Papers Of Benjamin Graham
It took me over a year to do this, but after many trips to the NYC research library I’ve finally compiled over 40 papers originally written by Benjamin Graham into an easy-to-read book format. These papers are not part of either Intelligent Investor...
- Mcgraw-hill Professional To Publish 75th Anniversary Edition Of Graham And Dodd's Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd's Security Analysis, first published by McGraw-Hill nearly 75 years ago, forever changed the theory and practice of successful investing. Written in the midst of the Great Depression and in the wake of the 1929 stock...
- The Long Case For The Coca-cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company (KO) will be announcing earnings on Tuesday, so what better time than the present to get an update on its current valuation. There's not much needed to be said about a company as great as Coca-Cola. It has the number...
- The Intelligent Investor
I've started reading Benjamin Graham's book The Intelligent Investor and have been amazed by some of the insights that he had. On page 203 Graham writes "The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all other times he...
Money and Finance
Book Review: 'Einstein of Money' details life of Buffett's mentor
Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along.
Benjamin Graham— the financial wiz who taught Warren Buffet[t] to invest — was not unduly interested in money himself.
Graham was a true intellectual — excited by math, languages and classic texts.
And women.
Although he was so honest that he repaid all his investors for their losses during the Great Depression, Graham was a thrice-married philanderer and an absentee dad.
He had so many affairs that Joe Carlen uses the word "swinger" to describe his sex life in a new biography, The Einstein of Money.
Graham divorced his first wife in 1937, when divorce was still socially unacceptable, leaving his four children stigmatized.
The next year, he married a young actress.
Next up, he married his young secretary.
Eventually, he took up with a Frenchwoman who was introduced as the former lover of his own deceased son.
All the while, the rest of Graham's life was the stuff of inspirational kids' books:
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Book: Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
- Warren Buffett's $50 Billion Decision – By Warren Buffett
Benjamin Graham had been my idol ever since I read his book The Intelligent Investor. I had wanted to go to Columbia Business School because he was a professor there, and after I got out of Columbia, returned to Omaha, and started selling securities,...
- Valuehuntr Blog: The Papers Of Benjamin Graham
It took me over a year to do this, but after many trips to the NYC research library I’ve finally compiled over 40 papers originally written by Benjamin Graham into an easy-to-read book format. These papers are not part of either Intelligent Investor...
- Mcgraw-hill Professional To Publish 75th Anniversary Edition Of Graham And Dodd's Security Analysis
Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd's Security Analysis, first published by McGraw-Hill nearly 75 years ago, forever changed the theory and practice of successful investing. Written in the midst of the Great Depression and in the wake of the 1929 stock...
- The Long Case For The Coca-cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company (KO) will be announcing earnings on Tuesday, so what better time than the present to get an update on its current valuation. There's not much needed to be said about a company as great as Coca-Cola. It has the number...
- The Intelligent Investor
I've started reading Benjamin Graham's book The Intelligent Investor and have been amazed by some of the insights that he had. On page 203 Graham writes "The true investor scarcely ever is forced to sell his shares, and at all other times he...