The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World’s Greatest Investor (Wiley Investment Classic)
Buffett is back . . . and better than before!A decade has passed since the book that introduced the world to Warren Buffett — The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom — first appeared. That groundbreaking book spent 21 weeks on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller list and sold over 1 million copies.Since then, Warren Buffett has solidified his reputation as the greatest investor of all time — becoming even richer and more successful, despite the wild fluctuation of the markets
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Amazed by good reviews of this book,
I am continually amazed by the good reviews this book receives; so I finally felt compelled to write. There is nothing in this book that Warren Buffett hasn’t already said in his annual letters. Robert Hagstrom revealed his true reason for writing this book when the first paperback edition came out and in it, in fine print, was a notice stating that Hagstrom had started an investment fund designed to invest using Warren Buffett’s principles (read: way). That is, he wrote the book so you would learn his name, become confident in his ability to analyze investments like Buffett does, and invest in his fund (which has a hefty expense ratio and has performed quite poorly I understand). So he writes this page book, in which he recommends that if you ever have the chance to read Buffett’s annual letters, you should, since they “read like a book on his investment philosophy”. I took his suggestion, ordered the back annual letters (sold by Berkshire Hathaway for $15) and found they repeated everything in this book – sometimes word for word (now how could Buffett have known what Hagstrom was going to write?). I get the feeling that Hagstrom has never met Buffett and never discussed investing with him (unlike Lowenstein, Lowe, Train, etc.) and his only research for this book was Buffett’s annual letters. I learned more about Buffett’s style from Roger Lowenstein’s biography. Take Robert Hagstrom’s advice and purchase the annual letters; they say the same thing – except Buffett’s sense of humor is better.
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|A poorly written precise of Buffett’s annual reports.,
Far from giving the reader an insight into the investment strategies of the world’s greatest investor this book simply summarises selected comments from Buffett in his annual reports of Berkshire Hathaway. Having read the book and the annual reports I can honestly say that Warren Buffett does it better! You can download the reports free of charge from the Berkshire Hathaway web site. Don’t waste your time with this book.
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|The Warren Buffett Way,
This is an excellent look at the investment style of Warren Buffett. It is extremely well written and very clear, I’d even go so far to say that you don’t need an in-depth knowledge of maths to understand the principles outlined in this book as they are explained so clearly, with many examples based on Buffetts own techniques and actual stock/business purchases. It has a slight biographical quality about it as well, which is great for that deeper understanding of Buffett and what has motivated and shaped his thinking. Of all the investment books i’ve read, this is one of the most accessible and useful. A great introduction to Buffett and value investing. Highly, highly recommended. If this piqued your interest try ‘The Essays of Warren Buffett’ by Lawrence Cunningham for some brilliant examples of Buffetts own clear and entertaining writing style and investment wisdom.
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