Books like The Education of a Value Investor

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The Intelligent Investor

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.

Both dig into value investing.

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The Essays of Warren Buffett

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.

Both dig into value investing.

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The Dhandho Investor

Mohnish Pabrai · Economics

The Dhandho Investor is Mohnish Pabrai's application of value investing principles through the lens of "dhandho" — a Gujarati word roughly translating to business and wealth creation conducted with minimal risk.

Both dig into value investing.

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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke · Psychology

Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.

A kindred memoir read.

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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein · Biography

Roger Lowenstein's Buffett is the definitive account of Warren Buffett's life up to the mid-1990s, when his investment record had already made him one of the wealthiest people on earth.

Shares value investing and character with The Education of a Value Investor.

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Margin of Safety

Seth Klarman · Economics

Margin of Safety is Seth Klarman's 1991 treatise on value investing, subtitled "Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor." The book has never been reprinted and used copies sell for hundreds to thousands of dollars, giving it a near-mythical status among serious investors.

Shares value investing and investment philosophy with The Education of a Value Investor.

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10% Happier

Dan Harris · Memoir

10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.

Both dig into self-improvement.

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Never Finished

David Goggins · Memoir

Never Finished is David Goggins' follow-up to Can't Hurt Me, continuing his story and philosophy of mental toughness beyond the point where the first book left off.

Both dig into self-improvement.

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · Memoir

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is one of the earliest and most influential self-improvement texts in American literature, written in four separate parts across the last decades of his life.

Both dig into self-improvement.

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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography

Sidney Poitier · Memoir

The Measure of a Man is Sidney Poitier's reflective autobiography, published when he was in his early seventies and looking back over a life that took him from bare subsistence on Cat Island in the Bahamas to the first Black actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Both dig into character.

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Atomic Habits

James Clear · Self-help

Atomic Habits is James Clear's framework for how very small changes — habits so minor they seem to make no difference on any given day — compound into remarkable results over months and years.

Both dig into self-improvement.

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Buffettology

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.

Both dig into value investing.