Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor
Second edition featuring a brand new foreword.
If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was wound up, you could have elected to stay with Buffett as a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which was spun off from the partnership and became Buffett's investing vehicle. In that event, your $10,000 would by the end of 1986 have turned into well over $5 million.
So, John Train introduces the remarkable story of Warren Buffett in his classic text, 'The Midas Touch'. First published in 1987, 'The Midas Touch' was one of the first books to recognise Warren Buffett's spectacular record, and to attempt to explain how he achieved his success. It is short, lucid and written with style and wit. A worthy testimony to its remarkable subject.
From the back cover of the book:
This is the book that tells readers how to invest like the man known as 'the Wizard of Omaha' (Forbes) and the investor with 'the Midas Touch' .
Warren Buffett is the most successful investor alive - the only member of the Forbes 400 to have earned his fortune entirely through investing. Bestselling author John Train analyzes the strategies, based on the value approach, that have guided Buffett in his remarkable career, strategies that work even though Buffett operates a thousand miles from Wall Street.
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Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor
Second edition featuring a brand new foreword.
If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was wound up, you could have elected to stay with Buffett as a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which was spun off from the partnership and became Buffett's investing vehicle. In that event, your $10,000 would by the end of 1986 have turned into well over $5 million.
So, John Train introduces the remarkable story of Warren Buffett in his classic text, 'The Midas Touch'. First published in 1987, 'The Midas Touch' was one of the first books to recognise Warren Buffett's spectacular record, and to attempt to explain how he achieved his success. It is short, lucid and written with style and wit. A worthy testimony to its remarkable subject.
From the back cover of the book:
This is the book that tells readers how to invest like the man known as 'the Wizard of Omaha' (Forbes) and the investor with 'the Midas Touch' .
Warren Buffett is the most successful investor alive - the only member of the Forbes 400 to have earned his fortune entirely through investing. Bestselling author John Train analyzes the strategies, based on the value approach, that have guided Buffett in his remarkable career, strategies that work even though Buffett operates a thousand miles from Wall Street.
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Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor

Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor

by John Train
Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor

Midas Touch: The Strategies That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Successful Investor

by John Train

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Second edition featuring a brand new foreword.
If you had put $10,000 in Buffett's original investing partnership at its inception in 1956, you would have collected about $293,738 by the time he dissolved it at the end of 1969. He had never suffered a down year, even in the severe bear markets of 1957, 1962, 1966, and 1969. When the partnership was wound up, you could have elected to stay with Buffett as a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., which was spun off from the partnership and became Buffett's investing vehicle. In that event, your $10,000 would by the end of 1986 have turned into well over $5 million.
So, John Train introduces the remarkable story of Warren Buffett in his classic text, 'The Midas Touch'. First published in 1987, 'The Midas Touch' was one of the first books to recognise Warren Buffett's spectacular record, and to attempt to explain how he achieved his success. It is short, lucid and written with style and wit. A worthy testimony to its remarkable subject.
From the back cover of the book:
This is the book that tells readers how to invest like the man known as 'the Wizard of Omaha' (Forbes) and the investor with 'the Midas Touch' .
Warren Buffett is the most successful investor alive - the only member of the Forbes 400 to have earned his fortune entirely through investing. Bestselling author John Train analyzes the strategies, based on the value approach, that have guided Buffett in his remarkable career, strategies that work even though Buffett operates a thousand miles from Wall Street.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781906659189
Publisher: Harriman House Publishing
Publication date: 06/01/2009
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

John Train founded Train Smith Investment Counsel and is the chairman of Montrose Advisors. He has written hundreds of columns for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Forbes magazine, Harvard Magazine, and the Financial Times. Apart from 'The Midas Touch', his bestselling books include 'The Craft of Investing', 'The Money Masters' and 'The New Money Masters'.

Table of Contents

2009 Foreword
1. A Master Investor
Starting early
Influences: 85 percent Ben Graham, 16 percent Phil Fisher
2. Some Favourite Investing Principles
Good Businesses and Bad Businesses
The Market and Fair Value
Nothing Exceeds Like Success
Pricing the Whole House
The Part Is Better Than the Whole
Risk and Reward
The Margin of Safety
Zigging When You Ought to Zag
The Efficient Market Hypothesis
The Out of My League Dilemma
The Leverage in Insurance Companies
The Cash Magnification Effect
The 12 Percent Equity Bond
Goodwill - the Gift that Keeps Giving
3. Buffett's Methods
Keep It Simple
Networking
Gold Is Where You Find It
Corporate Stock Repurchase Programs
Special Distributions
Stock Options
Corporate Philanthropy
4. How to Invest Like Buffett
Understand the Figures
Apply Your Own Business Experience
Go and Look
Know the Values
The Secret: Steady Compounding
Avoid Risk
What It Takes to Be a Good Investor
What Makes a Bad Investor
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