
Buffett's Early Investments
A New Investigation into the Decades When Warren Buffett Earned His Best Returns
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Mark Arnold
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Brett Gardner
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Buffett’s Early Investments investigates ten investments that legendary investor Warren Buffett made in the 1950s and 1960s—earning him his first millions—and uncovers unique insights in the process. Using the same documents Buffett used when he made these investments, the author reveals the fascinating inside stories of:
- How Philadelphia and Reading, Buffett’s largest investment in 1954, transformed from a declining coal company to a diversified conglomerate whose stock went up twentyfold due to the intervention of Buffett’s mentor, Ben Graham.
- How Buffett and Charlie Munger made their first formal investment together in Hochschild-Kohn.
- How corporate governance issues actually presented serious risk to Buffett’s 1966 investment in Walt Disney.
Other investments analyzed include American Express, British Columbia Power, Cleveland Worsted Mills, Greif Bros, Marshall-Wells, Studebaker, and Union Street Railway. Not all of these investments worked out—this book shows why.
Buffett’s Early Investments helps listeners understand how history’s greatest ever investor really made his returns in the years where he produced his best numbers.
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In this absorbing, smart, and accessible blend of economic and cultural history in the vein of the works of Michael Lewis and Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial executive and CNBC contributor examines the five most significant stock market crashes in the United States over the past century, revealing how they have defined the nation today.
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A solid telling of crucial history
- By Philo on 06-17-17
By: Scott Nations
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Private Equity Deals
- Case Studies of Dealmaking from Capital Allocators
- By: Ted Seides
- Narrated by: Ted Seides
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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There’s no more important sector of institutional portfolios or the global economy to understand than private equity. Private equity owned businesses are everywhere around us and touch every aspect of our daily lives. In Private Equity Deals, Ted Seides gives you an insight to the conversations that typically happen behind the closed doors of institutional investors and private equity managers. Through a series of case studies , Private Equity Deals shares the dynamics of deal making, companies, and ownership that make private equity a force in the world.
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“Inside baseball” on PE deals from the Sponsor’s perspective
- By Joel Katz on 02-20-25
By: Ted Seides
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The Essays of Warren Buffett
- Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition
- By: Lawrence A. Cunningham, Warren E. Buffett
- Narrated by: Brennen Blotner
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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The fifth edition of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America continues a 25-year tradition of collating Warren Buffett's philosophy in a historic collaboration between Mr. Buffett and Prof. Lawrence Cunningham. As the book Buffett autographs most, its popularity and longevity attest to the widespread appetite for this unique compilation of Mr. Buffett’s thoughts that is at once comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible.
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Excellent content
- By JV on 11-08-23
By: Lawrence A. Cunningham, and others
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The Bond King
- How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
- By: Mary Childs
- Narrated by: Mary Childs
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he went to Vegas armed with his net worth ($200) and a knack for counting cards. Ten thousand dollars and countless casino bans later, he was hooked, so he enrolled in business school. The Bond King is the story of how that whiz kid made American finance his casino.
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Being a good writer does not make you a good narrator
- By John Mallory on 05-14-22
By: Mary Childs
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The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway
- A Chronological Analysis of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's Conglomerate Masterpiece
- By: Adam J. Mead
- Narrated by: John Bradford
- Length: 22 hrs and 7 mins
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For the first time the complete financial history of Berkshire Hathaway is available under one cover in chronological format. Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the listener can examine the development of the modern-day conglomerate year-by-year and decade-by-decade, watching as the struggling textile company morphs into what it has become today. The structure of the book allows the new student to follow the logic, reasoning, and capital allocation decisions made by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger from the very beginning.
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Complete Berkshire Financial History
- By T. Eller on 06-06-21
By: Adam J. Mead
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The Essays of Warren Buffett
- Lessons for Corporate America
- By: Lawrence A. Cunningham
- Narrated by: Brennen Blotner
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
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A modern classic, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America is the book Buffett autographs most and likes best. Its popularity and longevity over three decades attest to the widespread appetite for this definitive statement of Mr. Buffett’s thoughts that’s uniquely comprehensive, non-repetitive, and digestible. New and experienced listeners alike will gain an invaluable informal education by perusing this classic arrangement of Mr. Buffett's best writings.
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Excellent Insights from Great Minds
- By Mdiwc on 04-28-24
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Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading
- By: Larry Williams
- Narrated by: Mike Norgaard
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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From Larry Williams—one of the most popular and respected technical analysts of the past four decades—Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading, Second Edition provides the blueprint necessary for sound and profitable short-term trading in a post-market meltdown economy. In this updated edition of the evergreen trading book, Williams shares his years of experience as a highly successful short-term trader, while highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of what can be a very fruitful yet potentially dangerous endeavor.
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One of the best books on Trading
- By Robert on 03-22-25
By: Larry Williams
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The Little Book of Bitcoin
- What You Need to Know That Wall Street Has Already Figured Out
- By: Anthony Scaramucci, Michael Saylor - foreword
- Narrated by: Anthony Scaramucci, Dean Gallagher
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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Founder and comanaging partner of SkyBridge Capital Anthony Scaramucci delivers a comprehensive guide to understand disruption in the financial industry as a result of the emergence and increasing prominence of digital asset technology. This book runs the gambit from basic concepts all the way to implications of decentralized finance on the financial industry and society as a whole.
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Good Summary of the Journey of Bitcoin so far
- By Ronald Bracho on 02-19-25
By: Anthony Scaramucci, and others
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The Warren Buffett Way
- 3rd Edition
- By: Robert Hagstrom
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Warren Buffett remains one of the most sought-after and watched figures in business today. He has become a billionaire and investment sage by buying chunks of companies and holding onto them, managing them as businesses, and eventually reaping huge profits for himself and investors in Berkshire Hathaway. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind the spectacular success of living legend Warren E. Buffett.
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Suggest getting the print copy.
- By Kevin Martin on 10-25-15
By: Robert Hagstrom
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How Not to Invest
- The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth—and how to avoid them
- By: Barry Ritholtz
- Narrated by: Barry Ritholtz, Nathan Adams Stark - foreword
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
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How Not To Invest shows you a few simple tools and models that will help you avoid the most common mistakes people make with their money. Learn these, and you are ahead of 98% of your peers. Make fewer errors, end up with more money. We all make mistakes. The goal with this book is to help you make fewer of them, and to have the mistakes you do make be less expensive.
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As objective and unbiased as it will probably ever get
- By quadturbo on 03-27-25
By: Barry Ritholtz
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The Intelligent Investor (Third Edition)
- The Definitive Book on Value Investing
- By: Benjamin Graham, Jason Zweig
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 20 hrs
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The classic work on investing, filled with sound and safe principles that are as reliable as ever, now revised with an introduction and appendix by financial legend Warren Buffett—one of the author’s most famous students—and newly updated commentaries on each chapter from distinguished Wall Street Journal writer Jason Zweig.
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The classic packaged with great commentary
- By Brandon Halvorsen on 03-11-25
By: Benjamin Graham, and others