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Books like Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
The best books like Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist are The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, The Intelligent Investor, and Poor Charlie's Almanack. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein is about value investing, compounding, character. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder · Biography
The Snowball is Alice Schroeder's authorized biography of Warren Buffett, written with his cooperation and based on hundreds of hours of interviews with him and the people who have known him across his life.
Shares value investing and compounding with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - The Intelligent Investor
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Benjamin Graham · Economics
The Intelligent Investor is Benjamin Graham's case that successful investing has less to do with picking the right stocks than with managing your own behavior.
Shares value investing and long-term thinking with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - Poor Charlie's Almanack
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Charlie Munger · Business
Poor Charlie's Almanack is a compilation of speeches, essays, and interviews from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's longtime business partner and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
A kindred biography read.
Read the summary → - The Warren Buffett Way
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Robert G. Hagstrom · Business
The Warren Buffett Way is Robert Hagstrom's systematic account of how Warren Buffett thinks about investing.
Shares value investing and long-term thinking with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - The Essays of Warren Buffett
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Warren Buffett · Economics
The Essays of Warren Buffett is Lawrence Cunningham's thematic compilation of Warren Buffett's annual letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, spanning from the 1970s through the year of publication.
Shares value investing and long-term thinking with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - Buffettology
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Mary Buffett · Economics
Buffettology is Mary Buffett and David Clark's attempt to systematize Warren Buffett's investment approach by working backward from decisions he made over several decades.
Shares value investing and compounding with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - The Education of a Value Investor
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The Education of a Value Investor
Guy Spier · Memoir
The Education of a Value Investor is Guy Spier's memoir of his transformation from a mediocre fund manager shaped by Wall Street's short-term incentives into a focused, long-term value investor working from Zurich.
Shares value investing and character with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - The Warren Buffett Portfolio
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Robert G. Hagstrom · Economics
The Warren Buffett Portfolio is Robert Hagstrom's attempt to articulate not just what Buffett buys, but how he thinks about portfolio construction — specifically his case for concentration over diversification.
Shares value investing and long-term thinking with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Read the summary → - 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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Thomas Phelps · Economics
100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.
Both dig into compounding.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Both dig into long-term thinking.
Read the summary → - Common Sense on Mutual Funds
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John C. Bogle · Economics
John Bogle, the founder of Vanguard and inventor of the retail index fund, wrote Common Sense on Mutual Funds as a comprehensive argument for why most investors should own index funds rather than actively managed funds.
Both dig into long-term thinking.
Read the summary → - Competition Demystified
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Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn · Business
Competition Demystified is Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn's deliberate simplification of competitive strategy — a counterweight to the complexity of the Porter Five Forces framework, which they argue gives strategists too many variables and not enough analytical clarity.
Both dig into value investing.
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Books like Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist: quick answers
What are the best books like Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist?
The best books like Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein are The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom, The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, such as value investing, compounding, character.
What should I read after Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist?
A natural next read after Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist is The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. Shares value investing and compounding with Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. Other strong choices are The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom.
What books are similar to Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein?
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist centers on value investing, compounding, character. Books with a similar feel include The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Poor Charlie's Almanack by Charlie Munger, The Warren Buffett Way by Robert G. Hagstrom, The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett, Buffettology by Mary Buffett — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
