Buffett's Bites : The Essential Investor's Guide to Warren Buffett's Shareholder Letters
by Rittenhouse, L.J.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-03-23
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill
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Summary
Investing strategies, market wisdom, and candid thoughts taken directly from Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.Even in today's precarious stock markets, Berkshire Hathaway's record of wealth creation continues to set new standards for successful, intelligent investing. Get the most insightful, canny, and candid thoughts from Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders inBuffett's Bites. L. J. Rittenhouse, a leading authority on evaluating CEO performance, extracts the best, most useful and enlightening nuggets from Buffett's 2008, 2009, and 2010 letters, and combines them with practical take-aways that investors can immediately apply to improve their own portfolios.Each "Bite" illuminates a different facet of Berkshire Hathaway's unrivalled success. The advice and strategies are divided into three categories to help you apply Buffett's wisdom: to today's markets; to learn what makes a business a trustworthy investment; and to value investing for the long haul. In a business climate where savvy investors have learned not to trust just any numbers,Buffett's Bitesis solid nutrition for informed decision-making.
Author Biography
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L. J. Rittenhouse is president of Rittenhouse Rankings Inc, a CEO strategic and investor relations company.
L. J. Rittenhouse is president of Rittenhouse Rankings Inc, a CEO strategic and investor relations company.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The ABCs of CEO Shareholder Letters | |
| What Are Shareholder Letters and Who Reads Them? | p. 9 |
| Why Read Shareholder Letters? | p. 15 |
| What Makes Berkshire Hathaway's Letters Different? | p. 21 |
| What Is the Berkshire Hathaway Report Card? | p. 33 |
| Is Warren Buffett a CEO or a CCAO? | p. 47 |
| Why Does Buffett Tap-Dance to Work Every Day? | p. 65 |
| Bite-Sized Investor Truths | |
| How to Spot Great Businesses Run by Great Managers | p. 81 |
| How to Become an Intelligent Investor | p. 111 |
| Principles-Based Capitalism for the Twenty-First Century | |
| Fiduciary Genetics: The Berkshire Hathaway Owner's Manual | p. 165 |
| Warren Buffett and Galileo: Traditions of Heresy | p. 177 |
| Woodstock or Camelot: Ideals, Images, and Greed | p. 195 |
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