Essential Buffett : Timeless Principles for the New Economy

THE ESSENTIAL BUFFETT -- CONTENTS -- 1 THE UNREASONABLE MAN -- Lesson 1 -- Lesson 2 -- A Better Yardstick -- Lesson 3 -- The Search for Patterns -- Why Has Wall Street Ignored Warren Buf fett? -- A Different Way of Thinking -- 2 THE WORLD'S GREATEST INVESTOR -- Investment Beginnings -- The Buffett Partnership, Ltd. -- The Early Days of Berkshire Hathaway -- The Insurance Business -- A Mosaic of Other Businesses -- The Man and His Company -- 3 LESSONS FROM THE THREE WISE MEN OF FINANCE -- Benjamin Graham -- Philip Fisher -- Charlie Munger -- A Blending of Inf luences -- 4 GUIDELINES FOR BUYING A BUSINESS: TWELVE IMMUTABLE TENETS -- Business Tenets -- Management Tenets -- Financial Tenets -- Market Tenets -- The Coca-Cola Company -- The Intelligent Investor -- 5 FOCUS INVESTING: THEORY AND MECHANICS -- Focus Investing: The Big Picture -- Do the Math -- Modern Portfolio Theory -- 6 MANAGING YOUR PORTFOLIO: THE CHALLENGE OF FOCUS INVESTING -- John Maynard Keynes -- Charles Munger Partnership -- Sequoia Fund -- Lou Simpson -- Three Thousand Focus Investors -- A Better Way to Measure Performance -- Two Good Reasons to Move Like a Sloth -- Fair Warning Label -- 7 THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF MONEY -- The Temperament of a True Investor -- 8 NEW OPPORTUNITIES, TIMELESS PRINCIPLES -- Beyond Buffett -- Technology Stocks -- Smaller and Mid-Capitalization Stocks -- International Stocks -- Learning from the Best -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX.