The Essays of Warren Buffett
by Warren E. Buffett, edited by Lawrence A. Cunningham
Buffett's shareholder letters arranged by topic, corporate governance, finance, investing, mergers, accounting, taxes, by a law professor who has updated the collection through several editions. It is the closest thing to a Buffett book by Buffett, and his prose is clearer and funnier than most writing about him.
Read it if…
you want Buffett's thinking in his own words, organized.
Skip it if…
you want a narrative; see The Snowball.
Three things you will actually use
- Stay in your circle of competence.
- Mr. Market serves you; he does not guide you.
- Margin of safety in everything.
Do this first
Read the investing section first; the circle-of-competence and Mr. Market passages are the core.
Our verdict
Buffett, organized and in his own voice.
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