Customer Review: Graham's approach is aimed at minimizing the odds of irreversible losses and maximizing the chances of sustainable gains. (Many dot-com and telecom stocks lost 95% of their value by the end of 2002, requiring a 1,900% gain to get it back. That illustrates why Graham constantly emphasizes the... more info
Customer Review: Great book on investing, and I look forward to finishing it this weekend (before taking advantage of the recent big decline). I especially like the profiles & strategies of the most successful investors of all time. A must read!
Customer Review: This book was so inspirational and superb it may have changed my life. It changed my perspective on things and it was so funny and enlightening it in a way contributed to helping me go from a Junior Manager in a Fortune 500 company to Head of Division with responsibility over 15 countries in an... more info
Customer Review: Having read several investment books, this book is a much needed shot in the arm in that it opens the doors to the type of independent thinking that the mutual fund industry doesn't want individual investors to engage in. Cramer's book encourages readers to move beyond what may be an effective but... more info
Customer Review: I liked the book and thouht it was really good, some stuff I didn't think about was menioned in this book, even though its for Dummies :-)
Customer Review: As others have mentioned, this book could be distilled down to "The only way to succeed at long term investing is to buy low-fee mutual funds that track the whole stock market". The entire rest of the book is the justification, and it's pretty hard to argue with any of it. Sure, you can beat the... more info
Customer Review: I struggled with the 1st 74 pages or so, but after that this book is excellent. There is a section he titles Kicking the Tires, in short he goes over how to evaluate a company and to stay away from the 1-2 year fly away companies. I remember when everyone was selling Apple back in the day, Peter did... more info
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