In Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind, Hagstrom breaks new ground with a deep analysis of Buffett's essential wisdom, an intricate mosaic of wide-ranging ideas and insights that Buffett calls a Money Mind.
What exactly is a Money Mind? At one level, it's a way of thinking about major financial issues such as capital allocation. At another level, it summarizes an overall mindset for successfully investing in today’s fast-paced stock market, a mindset that depends on a commitment to learning, adapting, and facing down irrelevant noise.
This is not a method book. It is a thinking book.
Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind explains the philosophies of self-reliance, stoicism, rationalism, and pragmatism and their contributions to making intelligent investment decisions. It also outlines the evolution of value investing, discusses how to develop a business-driven investing mindset, and describes the defining traits of successful active management. Lastly, it examines the surprising aspects of a Money Mind - sportsman, teacher, and artist.
In short, Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind helps readers understand the building blocks that go into making a Money Mind so they can begin to incorporate its principles in the service to a life of value.
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Table of Contents
Prologue V
Chapter One The Young Warren Buffett 1
It Begins 8
From Investment Partnership to a
Compounding Conglomerate 13
Chapter Two Developing an Investment Philosophy 17
Howard Homan Buffett 19
Benjamin Graham 26
Charles Thomas Munger 32
In Closing . . . 47
Chapter Three Evolution of Value Investing 49
Stage One: Classic Value Investing 51
Stage Two: Valuing a Business, Not a Stock 65
Stage Three: The Value of Network Economics 81
Chapter Four Business-Driven Investing 115
Investment Zone 117
Chapter Five It’s Not That Active
Management Doesn’t Work 147
Chapter Six The Money Mind: Sportsman, Teacher, Artist 185
Epilogue 199
Acknowledgments 207
Berkshire Hathaway Library 211
For Further Reading 215
Notes 225
Index 237
