Contents
Foreword: The Exception
Foreword to the Second Edition
Foreword to the First Edition
Introduction
Preface
Chapter 1: A Five-Sigma Event
Personal History and Investment Beginnings
The Buffett Partnership Ltd.
Berkshire Hathaway
Insurance Operations
The Man and His Company
Five-Sigma Event
Chapter 2: The Education of Warren Buffett
Benjamin Graham
Philip Fisher
Charlie Munger
A Blending of Intellectual Influences
Chapter 3: Buying a Business
Business Tenets
Management Tenets
Financial Tenets
Market Tenets
Anatomy of a Long-Term Stock Price
Chapter 4: Common Stock Purchases
The Washington Post Company
GEICO Corporation
Capital Cities/ABC
The Coca-Cola Company
General Dynamics
Wells Fargo & Company
American Express Company
International Business Machines
H.J. Heinz Company
A Common Theme
Chapter 5: Portfolio Management
The Mathematics of Focus Investing
Focus Investors in Graham-and-Doddsville
Chapter 6: The Psychology of Investing
The Intersection of Psychology and Economics
Behavioral Finance
And on the Other Side, Warren Buffett
Why Psychology Matters
Chapter 7: The Value of Patience
For the Long Term
Rationality: The Critical Difference
Slow-Moving Ideas
System 1 and System 2
The Mindware Gap
Time and Patience
Chapter 8: The World’s Greatest Investor
The Private Buffett
The Buffett Advantage
Learning to Think Like Buffett
Finding Your Own Way
Appendix
Acknowledgments
About the Website
About the Author
Index
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