The Essays of Warren Buffett
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Lawrence A. Cunningham
Warren E. Buffett
In the third edition of this international best seller, Lawrence
Cunningham brings you the latest wisdom from Warren Buffett’s annual
letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. New material addresses:
the financial crisis and its continuing implications for investors, managers and society;the housing bubble at the bottom of that crisis;the debt and derivatives excesses that fueled the crisis and how to deal with them;controlling risk and protecting reputation in corporate governance;Berkshire’s acquisition and operation of Burlington Northern Santa Fe;the role of oversight in heavily regulated industries;investment possibilities today; andweaknesses of popular option valuation models.
Some other material has been rearranged to deepen the themes and lessons that the collection has always produced:
Buffett’s “owner-related business principles” are in the prologue as a separate subject andvaluation and accounting topics are spread over four instead of two sections and reordered to sharpen their payoff.
Media coverage is available at the following links:
Interviews/Podcasts:
Motley Fool, click here.
Money, Riches and Wealth, click here.
Manual of Ideas, click here.
Corporate Counsel, click here.
Reviews:
William J. Taylor, ABA Banking Journal, click here.
Bob Morris, Blogging on Business, click here.
Pamela Holmes, Saturday Evening Post, click here.
Kevin M. LaCroix, D&O Diary, click here.
Blog Posts:
On Finance issues (Columbia University), click here.
On Berkshire post-Buffett (Manual of Ideas), click here.
On Publishing the book (Value Walk), click here.
On Governance issues (Harvard University blog), click here.
Featured Stories/Recommended Reading:
Motley Fool, click here.
Stock Market Blog, click here.
Motley Fool Interviews with LAC at Berkshire's 2013 Annual Meeting
Berkshire Businesses: Vastly Different, Same DNA, click here.
Is Berkshire's Fat Wallet an Enemy to Its Success?, click here.
Post-Buffett Berkshire: Same Question, Same Answer, click here.
How a Disciplined Value Approach Works Across the Decades, click here.
Through the Years: Constant Themes in Buffett's Letters, click here.
Buffett's Single Greatest Accomplishment, click here.
Where Buffett Is Finding Moats These Days, click here.
How Buffett Has Changed Through the Years, click here.
Speculating on Buffett's Next Acquisition, click here.
Buffett Says “Chief Risk Officers” Are a Terrible Mistake, click here.
Berkshire Without Buffett, click here.
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Author
Lawrence A. Cunningham
Pages
306
Publisher
Carolina Academic Press
Published Date
2013-03-15
ISBN
1611634474 9781611634471
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"As educational as it is humorous, the book captures many of Buffett's insights in his signature style. A must have on the bookshelf. Some favorite remarks below...<br/><br/>On Our Tendency to Overcomplicate<br/><i>"The truth is no doctor ever achieved fame & fortune by recommending two aspirin"</i><br/><br/>On Patience<br/><i>"You can't have a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant"</i><br/><br/>On Risk Management<br/><i>"Its far better to be approximately right then precisely wrong"</i><br/><br/>On Bad M&A<br/><i>"While a deal may fail in practice it never fails in its projections"</i><br/><br/>On Buybacks<br/><i>"To much of a good thing... can be a wonderful thing"</i>"