The Intelligent Investor
1949
- securities
- investments
- investing
- value investing
- stock market
- finance
- personal finance
- business
- security analysis
- graham's number
The story
This classic text is annotated to update Graham's timeless wisdom for today's market conditions... The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. Graham's philosophy of "value investing" -- which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies -- has made *The Intelligent Investor* the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of *The Intelligent Investor* is the most important book you will ever read on how to reach your financial goals.
What it’s like
Measured, unhurried, and dry in the best sense: this is a book whose pages feel like a well-kept ledger and a quiet study lamp rather than anything decorative. The prose is plain, orderly and reasoned, with numbered principles, worked examples of companies and price charts, and marginal-style commentary that sets a modern voice beside Graham's 1949 sentences. The register is steady and sober, with a faint warmth in the asides about human temperament, where Graham sketches the manic-depressive "Mr. Market" who offers to buy and sell his shares every day. Nothing is graphic or frightening; the only tension is the reader's own impatience and greed, which the text gently pokes at. It suits a rainy Sunday at a kitchen table, a notebook beside it, or a slow read over several weeks with a calculator at hand. Its pace is deliberate and its rhythm patient, a chapter at a time. No violence, sexual content or fear. For readers who want calm, sensible, methodical reading about money, and who enjoy wisdom delivered without flourish.
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