The Intelligent Investor

OK, the recent stock market drops scared me. I got hit by the drops in 99 and said I would never let it happen again. This time I had what I thought would be value stocks. The problem was I didn't know if I should sell or hold the stocks. So for $8 I bought a used copy of Ben Graham's book. I stoppe......more

I had high expectations from the book, which it failed to meet. But then, this book is too old to have a lot of relevance now. The essence is that an intelligent investor is one who doesn’t think of this as gambling. Do solid fundamental, qualitative analysis rather than looking at charts. Know what......more

Frankly speaking, this book is not easy to understand if you don’t have any knowledge of share markets. A lot of financial jargon and terms were used to explain the investment. I recommend reading it because there are a lot of principles and analyses of buying shares, bonds, etc. A must-read book for......more

To be honest, the commentary and footnotes of this book were more useful to me than the original content. The book in its original form is obviously outdated in terms of the specific examples it gives for ways to invest and the different companies it details. However, the commentary by Jason Zweig d......more

Okay, this is the book to read if you are serious about investing in stocks. Benjamin Graham's "value investing" method is the time-tested "choose 'em carefully and hold 'em" long-term strategy used by Warren Buffett. Benjamin Graham is the man that Warren Buffett calls The Man. So, you know, if you......more