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The Intelligent Investor vs Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits: Which Should You Actually Read?

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Both books live on the same shelf: Money & Finance. Both are free to read here, in full, right now. The Intelligent Investor (1949, Benjamin Graham) argues: The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself. Buy value, demand… Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958, Philip A. Fisher) argues: Buy exceptional growth companies and hold them for decades: Fisher's 15 points, the scuttlebutt rese…

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The Intelligent Investor

by Benjamin Graham · 1949 · 8 min read

Graham - Buffett's teacher and the father of security analysis - built the intellectual foundation of rational investing on a handful of unbreakable ideas: an INVESTMENT operation promises safety of principal and adequate return through analysis (everything el

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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

by Philip A. Fisher · 1958 · 10 min read

Fisher, Buffett's acknowledged second teacher (after Graham), argued that the real money is made in a few exceptional growth companies held a very long time. His 15-point checklist asks whether the products have market potential to keep growing for years, whet

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Read The Intelligent Investor if you want the definitive book on value investing - mr. market, margin of safety,

Read Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits if you want a wiser approach to investment, from the man warren buffett called his

The honest order for most readers: start with The Intelligent Investor for the base, then go deeper with the other. Both summaries are free, no paywall, in 26 languages.

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