Books like The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

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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 long-term thinking.

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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 long-term thinking.

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

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.

Both dig into investing.

04

Good to Great

Jim Collins · Business

Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?

A kindred business read.

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The Warren Buffett Way

Robert G. Hagstrom · Business

The Warren Buffett Way is Robert Hagstrom's systematic account of how Warren Buffett thinks about investing.

Shares capital allocation and long-term thinking with The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success.

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Winning the Loser's Game

Charles D. Ellis · Business

Winning the Loser's Game is Charles Ellis's case that most individual and institutional investors would be better served by passive index funds than by active management.

Shares investing and long-term thinking with The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success.

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Common Sense on Mutual Funds

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.

Shares investing and long-term thinking with The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success.

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The Little Book That Builds Wealth

Pat Dorsey · Economics

The Little Book That Builds Wealth is Pat Dorsey's case for a single, tractable framework for equity investing: find companies with durable competitive advantages — what Warren Buffett calls economic moats — buy them at reasonable prices, and hold them.

Shares investing and long-term thinking with The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success.

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100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them

Christopher Mayer · Business

Christopher Mayer built this book on research conducted earlier by Thomas Phelps, whose 1972 book 100 to 1 in the Stock Market studied stocks that returned one hundred times their purchase price.

Both dig into capital allocation.

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7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

Hamilton Helmer · Business

7 Powers is Hamilton Helmer's attempt to distill the full landscape of business strategy into a single rigorous framework.

Both dig into business strategy.

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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.

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Capital Returns

Edward Chancellor · Business

Capital Returns is Edward Chancellor's edited collection of investment letters from Marathon Asset Management, a London-based fund manager, covering roughly the period from 2002 to 2015.

Both dig into capital allocation.