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The Intelligent Investor vs The Simple Path to Wealth: 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… The Simple Path to Wealth (2016, JL Collins) argues: Spend less than you earn, invest the rest in index funds, and let decades do the heavy lifting.…

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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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The Simple Path to Wealth

by JL Collins · 2016 · 8 min read

JL Collins wrote this book as letters to his daughter - and the letters became the most beloved personal-finance book of the decade. His path is almost insultingly simple: live on less than you earn (the 'gap' is your freedom), invest the gap in total-market i

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

Read The Simple Path to Wealth if you want your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life - the bo

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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