Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

I own a significant amount of berkshire stock and read this whole book. It is a long read, but well worth it: you learn all the essentials to the company and get the best investing advice possible for long term wealth accumulation. I have steadily grown more knowledgeable and wealthy thanks to Buffet's gracious sharing of his profound understanding of capital markets. Buffet's wisdom is much more valuable than the refuse they teach in finance school. If you believe you have to study how to become wealthy, as I most assuredly do, seize on the opportunity to learn from the master and order this book with rapidity and incorporate it into your investing life. I thanks my lucky stars every day for Buffet's intellectual generosity.

There have been critics who have written reviews on here that this book is no different than going online and printing out all of the shareholders letters and there are others that say that you should pick up Lawrence Cunningham's version because that version is editorialized and I am here to tell you that I have done all three, not because anyone has told me or I recommended it, but because I have thoroughly entrenched myself in the study of Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and Berkshire Hathaway and I will tell you this edition and book is an outstanding treasure and amazing addition to anyone's library, full of awesome information and knowledge about the inner workings of Berkshire Hathaway. I'm actually very sorry I didn't get it much, much sooner. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough...10 STARS!!!!!

The wisdom and biggest from this book are timeless. One of the best books I’ve read! As a BRK shareholder, highly recommend!

I was so entertained by the shareholder letters -- in combination with the performance of the stock -- that I had to read other things by or about Buffett and his partner Munger. The shareholder letters are Buffett's view on Berkshire's annual report with a lot of humor and musings on investing thrown in. Buffett is a master communicator. One has to shake one's head at the chart at the book's beginning showing the comparison of Berkshire and S&P over 40 or so years. Wow, these guys are good! Other books -- Cunningham's book on Buffett (compilation of shareholder letter passages illustrating recurring themes, a kind of Berkshire in a Nutshell -- very good), Munger's "Psychology of Misjudgements" (a speech at Harvard Law School, on Youtube, very good), Tao of Buffett and Snowball (neither are my cup of tea), Intelligent Investor by Graham (Buffett's favorite book on investing, get the edition with commentary by Jason Zweig. -- fantastic).

It's hard for me to review a book but this one has great information for everyone. I recommend.

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An incredible collection of business lessons. Mr. Buffett is a master teacher and relates his unmatched insight on investments including equities, bonds, and private businesses. In addition, you'll find worldly wisdom and humor that make lessons in accounting, business governance, and other boaring topics far more tolerable. The paper copy book allows one to mark areas that hold incredibly useful information for future business endeavours versus the online reports. It is a must for anyone living in today's competitive business environment.

You can get all of these letters for free on the Berkshire Hathaway website. However, I am a paper in hand kind of guy. And this book is a heck of a lot better than printing them off. I like to take notes and highlight text.

I completed many of the initial chapters. I could sense that Mr. Buffet was very eager to share his knowledge. I thank him for sharing his experience of running businesses and knowledge of investing. Almost every chapter, one consistency I observed is that he would say 'earnings' always with reference to the capital/equity that was employed to generate the earnings. Initially I was using the Kindle soft copy version. Somehow, I was not enjoying the reading. Recently I bought the paperback (for less than 5000, no cost EMI). Now the experience is totally different. I enjoy reading few chapters of this book every day. I never regret spending this money—worth every penny. For those interested to know about the physical quality of the book: The paper quality is good and thin. Font size is larger than many books. The length and breadth of the books is also larger (bigger form factor). Overall, the quality of the book is excellent. I read this book for education and knowledge. But, as a retail investor, I do not (and cannot) follow Mr. Buffett's deal making method of investing. I follow the methods of Mr. William O'Neil and Mr. Mark Minervini.

I am happy to have bought this Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders. After read the 1st chapter, I would recommend it to all investors who are new to the trading or investing in equity market. It focus on the market trade, courage, insight of doing the business and or the investing direction. So much to learn from what has Mr Warren shared of his precious wisdom and insight of investment.

If you have the determinaton to read all the letters chronilogically from start to end, you will experience a truly worth while education at the hands of the worlds greatest investor, who evolves with his investing landscape. works hard to avoid losses, and compounds his successive gains. You experience in real time, the trials, the tribulations, and the brutal self assessments of the the Sage of Omaha. Then, as you see the story of suceess progressively unfold in the rear mirror, you realise that what you are witnessing is a master class of capital allocation free of hubris and full of brutal self assessment. The extraodinary discipline and insight of Mr Buffett's detailed explanations of their approach to Berkshire's insurance business, is a must read for anyone interested in being involved in the insurance business or investing in insurance companies.

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