Reading List – Warren Buffet

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  • 1989 — Essays in Persuasion by John Maynard Keynes1992 — The Theory of Investment Value by John Burr Williams
  • 1994 — The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes (in OID)
  • 1994 — The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham
  • 1994 — The People V. Clarence Darrow : The Bribery Trial of America’s Greatest Lawyer by Geoffrey Cowan (in OID)
  • 1995 — A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class by Joseph Nocera (in OID)
  • 1996 — Paths to wealth through common stocks by Philip Fisher (in OID)
  • 1996 — The Money Masters by John Train
  • 1997 — Only the Paranoid Survive : How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove (in OID)
  • 1997 — The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams
  • 1998 — The Expanded Quotable Einstein by Albert Einstein
  • 2000 — Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher
  • 2000 — The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America by Lawrence A. Cunningham
  • 2000 — The Farmer From Merna by Karl Schriftgeisser
  • 2001 — Personal History by Katharine Graham
  • 2001 — Security Analysis by Ben Graham and Dave Dodd
  • 2001 — The Warren Buffett CEO by Robert P Miles
  • 2002 — Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know. What you can do to fight back by Arthur Levitt
  • 2003 — Bull! : A History of the Boom, 1982-1999: What drove the Breakneck Market–and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar
  • 2003 — First a Dream by Jim Clayton
  • 2003 — In an Uncertain World by Bob Rubin
  • 2003 — Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton
  • 2003 — Science of Hitting by Ted Williams and John Underwood
  • 2003 — The Intelligent Investor — 2003 Revised Edition by Jason Zweig
  • 2003 — The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
  • 2004 — A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • 2004 — Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison
  • 2004 — Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger by Charles T. Munger
  • 2004 — The Financial Times, Amercian Edition Newspaper
  • 2004 — The General Theory by John Maynard Keynes
  • 2004 — The Intelligent Investor
  • 2005 — F.I.A.S.C.O.: Blood In The Water On Wall Street by Frank Partnoy
  • 2005 — Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America by Ken Wells
  • 2006 — Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger (Thrid Edition) by Peter Bevelin
  • 2007 — Supermoney [Edition with a new foreword by John Bogle and a preface by Adam Smith (aka George J. W. Goodman)] by Adam Smith
  • 2007 — The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
  • 2007 — Warren Buffett: An Illustrated Biography of the World’s Most Successful Investor by Ayano Morio
  • 2007 — Where Are the Customers’ Yachts? or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed, Jr
  • 2008 — Foods You Will Enjoy — The Story of Buffett’s Store, by Bill Buffett
  • 2008 — Pleased, but Not Satisfied by David Sokol (Note: WEB did not recommend specifically at the AGM the new book by David Sokol, but he has written its foreword!)
  • 2008 — The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, edited by Lawrence Cunningham
  • 2008 — The Warren Buffett CEO: Secrets From the Berkshire Hathaway Managers, by Robert Miles
  • Benjamin Graham on Value Investing: Lessons from the Dean of Wall Street by Janet Lowe
  • Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor by John C. Bogle
  • Do Business with People You Can Trust: Balancing Profits and Principles by L. J. Rittenhouse
  • Epidemic of Care : A Call for Safer, Better, and More Accountable Health Care by George C. Halvorson
  • Father, Son & Co : My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas, Jr. Watson
  • Jack Welch Speaks: Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Business Leader by Janet Lowe
  • Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch
  • John Bogle on Investing: The First 50 Years by John C. Bogle
  • Market–and What Every Investor Needs to Know About Financial Cycles by Maggie Mahar
  • Memos from the Chairman by Alan “Ace” C. Greenberg
  • Of Permanent Value: The Story of Warren Buffett/2007 International Edition/in 2 volumes by Andrew Kilparrick
  • Quality Financial Reporting by Paul B. W. Miller & Paul R. Bahnson
  • Running On Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It” by Peter G. Peterson
  • Speculative Contagion: An Antidote for Speculative Epidemics by Frank Martin
  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns (Little Book Big Profits) by John C. Bogle
  • The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley by Leslie Berlin
  • The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People by James O’Loughlin
  • Will America Grow up Before it Grows Old : How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family and Your Country by Peter G. Peterson (Source: Of Permanent Value, Literary Edition page 197)


“Growltiger’s Last Stand” by T.S. Elliot.

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"GROWLTIGER was a Bravo Cat, who lived upon a barge;
In fact he was the roughest cat that ever roamed at large.
From Gravesend up to Oxford he pursued his evil aims,
Rejoicing in his title of "The Terror of the Thames."

His manners and appearance did not calculate to please;
His coat was torn and seedy, he was baggy at the knees;
One ear was somewhat missing, no need to tell you why,
And he scowled upon a hostile world from one forbidding eye.

The cottagers of Rotherhithe knew something of his fame,
At Hammersmith and Putney people shuddered at his name.
They would fortify the hen-house, lock up the silly goose,
When the rumour ran along the shore: GROWLTIGER'S ON THE LOOSE!

Woe to the weak canary, that fluttered from its cage;
Woe to the pampered Pekinese, that faced Growltiger's rage.
Woe to the bristly Bandicoot, that lurks on foreign ships,
And woe to any Cat with whom Growltiger came to grips!

But most to Cats of foreign race his hatred had been vowed;
To Cats of foreign name and race no quarter was allowed.
The Persian and the Siamese regarded him with fear--
Because it was a Siamese had mauled his missing ear.

Now on a peaceful summer night, all nature seemed at play,
The tender moon was shining bright, the barge at Molesey lay.
All in the balmy moonlight it lay rocking on the tide--
And Growltiger was disposed to show his sentimental side.

His bucko mate, GRUMBUSKIN, long since had disappeared,
For to the Bell at Hampton he had gone to wet his beard;
And his bosun, TUMBLEBRUTUS, he too had stol'n away-
In the yard behind the Lion he was prowling for his prey.

In the forepeak of the vessel Growltiger sate alone,
Concentrating his attention on the Lady GRIDDLEBONE.
And his raffish crew were sleeping in their barrels and their bunks--
As the Siamese came creeping in their sampans and their junks.

Growltiger had no eye or ear for aught but Griddlebone,
And the Lady seemed enraptured by his manly baritone,
Disposed to relaxation, and awaiting no surprise--
But the moonlight shone reflected from a thousand bright blue eyes.

And closer still and closer the sampans circled round,
And yet from all the enemy there was not heard a sound.
The lovers sang their last duet, in danger of their lives--
For the foe was armed with toasting forks and cruel carving knives.
Then GILBERT gave the signal to his fierce Mongolian horde;
With a frightful burst of fireworks the Chinks they swarmed aboard.
Abandoning their sampans, and their pullaways and junks,
They battened down the hatches on the crew within their bunks.

Then Griddlebone she gave a screech, for she was badly skeered;
I am sorry to admit it, but she quickly disappeared.
She probably escaped with ease, I'm sure she was not drowned--
But a serried ring of flashing steel Growltiger did surround.

The ruthless foe pressed forward, in stubborn rank on rank;
Growltiger to his vast surprise was forced to walk the plank.
He who a hundred victims had driven to that drop,
At the end of all his crimes was forced to go ker-flip, ker-flop.

Oh there was joy in Wapping when the news flew through the land;
At Maidenhead and Henley there was dancing on the strand.
Rats were roasted whole at Brentford, and at Victoria Dock,
And a day of celebration was commanded in Bangkok."