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TIP 062 : Warren Buffett's Favorite Book, Security Analysis (Business Podcast)

The Investor's Podcast (We Study Billionaires) - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Investing, Education, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: Why Security Analysis is one of Warren Buffett’s three favorite books Real case studies where Warren Buffett has directly applied skills acquired from Security Analysis The highlights for each of the 7 major parts in Security Analysis The difference in opinion between Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett when it comes to dividends BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Stig, Clay, and the other community members. Preston & Stig’s book, Security Analysis (100 Page Summary) – Read reviews of this book. Benjamin Graham’s book, Security Analysis – Read reviews of this book. Benjamin Graham’s book, The Intelligent Investor – Read reviews of this book. Philip Fisher’s book, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits – Read reviews of this book. Adam Smith’s book, The Wealth of Nations – Read reviews of this book. Preston and Stig’s, Video Lessons. NEW TO THE SHOW? 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0:00.0

We study billionaires and this is episode 62 of the Investors Podcast.

0:06.0

Broadcasting from Bel Air, Maryland. This is the Investors Podcast.

0:14.0

They'll read the books and summarize the lessons. They'll test the waters.

0:18.0

Tell you what it's called. They'll give you actionable investing strategies.

0:23.0

Your host Preston Pish and St. Broderson.

0:29.0

Hey, how's everybody doing out there? This is Preston Pish and I'm your host for the Investors Podcast.

0:34.0

As usual, I'm accompanied by my co-host St. Broderson out in Denmark.

0:38.0

Stig and I are reading a really long book right now.

0:41.0

We just finished up our last episode with Trent talking about Charlie Munger and we're reading a really long book.

0:47.0

We needed a little bit of extra time to be able to get through that book.

0:51.0

Stig and I were saying, which books have we read in the past that we could do an episode on?

0:56.0

And the one book that kind of came to mind was this book called Security Analysis.

1:01.0

I know there's a lot of people out there that are always hearing us talk about the book security analysis.

1:06.0

But today's episode, we're actually going to go into a little bit of depth to talk about what we actually know about this book.

1:12.0

So before we start diving in and talking about this particular book,

1:17.0

I think it's really important for us to give the proper amount of context for people to understand what it is that we're about to talk about today.

1:25.0

Warren Buffett has a quote saying that security analysis, the intelligent investor in the wealth of nations were three very, very influential books shaping his life.

1:34.0

He also has another one that he's read called Common Stock and Uncommon Profits by Phil Fisher.

1:40.0

He says that that makes up about 15% of his investing philosophy as he's broke that down into a percent.

1:46.0

But the one that we're really going to focus on, as I said, is security analysis.

1:49.0

So I want to start off by reading the forward in security analysis, which is written by Warren Buffett.

1:55.0

The book starts off and it's a four or five paragraphs here.

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