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The Intelligent InvestorBook

by Benjamin Graham, 1949

Who uses, recommends or left The Intelligent Investor, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Co-founder and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management; writes the Downtown Josh Brown newsletter and co-hosts The Compound and Friends.
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He has been a confidant of Buffett and Munger, a co-author with Daniel Kahneman, an editor on two revised editions of Ben Graham’s masterpiece The Intelligent Investor, considered to be the best book on investing ever written.

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Zurich-based investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham is where it all started for me.

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Managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management; writes The Irrelevant Investor and co-hosts Animal Spirits.
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Graham’s ideas made so much sense to me, not really the stuff about valuing a business, because I didn’t know the first thing about accounting, but the notion that the value of a business is irrelevant in the short-run.

A post, 'The Best Kind of Learning,' tracing which investing books shaped his thinking and naming his ten favorite investing books; original page now 404s on theirrelevantinvestor.com, quoted from the Wayback Machine snapshot; book links are amzn.to affiliate links. (undated page)

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Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying; COO at Ritholtz Wealth Management.
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No list of best investment books is complete without The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.

Maggiulli’s annotated list of the 11 best investing books; the book links are Amazon affiliate links (tag=ofdollarsandd-20).

2023-06-29·ofdollarsanddata.com ↗

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