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The Manual of IdeasBook

by John Mihaljevic

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

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Guy Spier
Zurich-based investor who ran the Aquamarine Fund from 1997 to 2025 and wrote The Education of a Value Investor.
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Five other books that deserve to be read and reread many times are Seth Klarman’s Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor; Joel Greenblatt’s You Can be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits; The Aggressive Conservative Investor by Martin J. Whitman, Martin Shubik, and Gene Isenberg; John Mihaljevic’s The Manual of Ideas: The Proven Framework for Finding the Best Value Investments; and Mohnish Pabrai’s The Dhandho Investor: The Low-Risk Value Method to High Returns.

Spier's standing 'My Favorite Books for Investing and Life' page; no publication date shown, so the date is the sitemap lastmod for the page.

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