The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Best Seller on Value Investing

This is the best investment book that I have read and I am a veteran of many investment books having written one myself. In fact, The Intelligent Investor is probably the best investment book ever written. Good investing doesn't require a gigantic IQ, but it does need a proper state of mind, the intellectual framework for recognizing the truth and the ability to keep your emotions from eroding that framework. What I liked the best in the book was the numerous case studies which allowed me to work out my investment decisions on given stock situations and then see what subsequently happened to that stock. The subsequent discussions and the results proved that stock picking can be quite scientific and predictable. The book further proves that the investors worst enemy is often himself/herself. The fault Dear Brutus is not in our stocks but in ourselves for we are underlings. Enthusiasm might do well in other endeavors, but in Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster. In Wall Street it's the facts that count not wishful thinking or fantasy as so many have recently learned. Incidentally, I agree with Graham's definition: An investment is one which, upon analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Anything else is a speculation and should be avoided. Follow Graham and you might profit from the folly of others rather than participate in folly yourself.

Over the past 30 years I have read a lot about Warren Buffet's early stock market education and noted that he has often cited his reading of 'The Intelligent Investor' as an critical starting point for him personally. I have now read and re-read this classic book a number of times over the years and I, while I still have a lot to learn, I can see my success in investing steadily improving. It offers a solid grounding in how to buy value in the stock market.

I bought this because it was recommended by Warren Buffet. It is NOT an easy book to comprehend and it took me nearly 9 months to finish, but it is well worth it. The market insights have proven to be invaluable. I make investment and speculative decisions with much more confidence now. Not only that, I haven't made a losing decision since I have finished this book. Some of the information may not be valid anymore and it can be outdated, but like I said, earlier, it is a hard read, but it will increase your intelligence and ability to make investment decisions. If you can actually finish the book and apply the knowledge, you will be up there in the top percentile of investors.

I am a firm believer in the concept of value investing and dollar cost averaging. Graham, the father of these concepts, outlines his viewpoints in a candid and frank manner and gives both novice and advanced investors a glimpse into his views of how to pick a good company and determine its value based on effective security analysis.The book is a little dry at times and the material is somewhat dated. The last revision was in the early 70s so as such, don't look to it for good judgements as to which industry may be the one of preference since times have changed. But Graham's no nonsense approach to choosing stocks based on value, using dollar cost averaging and effective asset allocation are worth the price alone in my mind.

B.O. Graham's book is some of the best investment advice you will ever read or obtain. So simple and direct, easy to understand, and written with great insights into human behavior in the stock market. I have been following his advice for many years and it has paid great dividends for me. You don't have to be a genius to build wealth in the stock market but you must be disciplined and have a plan. Graham outlines the basics for you in this classic book on investing. I still refer to it quite often when I get off my investing track and it brings me back to reversion to the means thinking and how to view the market.

This has been by far the best book I ever read. Chapter 8 is the FUNDAMENTALS of investing.It turned me from a good investor, to a great investor. If you read this book and try and apply the strategies today it is vry applicable. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to learn investing.

For its day it was a great book, but it is very outdated and reads like a textbook. You can still get some useful info out of it, but I'm not sure that what you get out of it is worth the cost of the book or the time it will take to read it.

The opinions and recommendations in the Intelligent Investor, written in the 1949, and in the 1973 revised edition which I read, have proven to be accurate, edifying, and if adhered to, a way to increase wealth. Fascinating reading for novice Stock Market investors, as well as the experienced investor.

Read this book 3 times. Before investing. Glad I did

if you are a time traveler buy it ! you will be able to predict what happened in the sixties and seventies and will be able to get rich the same way buffet did. If you have no brain and no value for industry whatsoever, and if you like to calculate anything but human cost, buy it too.If you are looking for a book to teach you how to choose your investments in order to raise money and avoid bubbles, pass your way, this book is not for you

Every bit as informative as it was said to be.Highly recommended.

Good item. Good price. Prompt delivery.